The Russian Farm-Fox Experiment is the best known experimental study in animal
domestication. By subjecting a population of foxes to selection for tameness alone, Dimitry …

Altered neural crest cell (NCC) behaviour is an increasingly cited explanation for the
domestication syndrome in animals. However, recent authors have questioned this …

Strains of red fox (Vulpes vulpes) with markedly different behavioural phenotypes have been
developed in the famous long-term selective breeding programme known as the Russian …

Widely distributed taxa provide an opportunity to compare biogeographic responses to
climatic fluctuations on multiple continents and to investigate speciation. We conducted the …

A few years ago, Wilkins et al.(2014) advanced the neural crest cell hypothesis of
domestication as an explanation for the “domestication syndrome” in animals, which refers …

The process of canine domestication represents certainly one of the most interesting
questions that evolutionary biology aims to address. A “multiphase” view of this process is …

Domestic animals are ubiquitous. In contrast to the biodiversity crisis currently impacting
many kinds of animals and plants, not a single domesticated species is endangered …

After more than a century of argument and discussion, it is now generally agreed that the
single progenitor of all domestic dogs, ancient and modern, was the grey wolf, Canis lupus …

Red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) are native to boreal and western montane portions of North
America but their origins are unknown in many lowland areas of the United States. Red …

Our 2014 hypothesis, published in GENETICS, aimed to elucidate a set of traits associated
with mammalian domestication, a phenomenon termed the “domestication syndrome.” Our …