The domestication of animals led to a major shift in human subsistence patterns, from a
hunter–gatherer to a sedentary agricultural lifestyle, which ultimately resulted in the …

Adaptive genetic variation has been thought to originate primarily from either new mutation
or standing variation. Another potential source of adaptive variation is adaptive variants from …

Despite the substantial role that chickens have played in human societies across the world,
both the geographic and temporal origins of their domestication remain controversial. To …

Domestication and breeding have reshaped the genomic architecture of chicken, but the
retention and loss of genomic elements during these evolutionary processes remain …

The domestication of plants and animals over the past 11,500 years has had a significant
effect not just on the domesticated taxa but also on human evolution and on the biosphere …

The biology of stress in chickens is reviewed. Not only is stress associated with depressed
production, but animal welfare influences consumer acceptance of poultry and eggs. The …

The domestication and development of cattle has considerably impacted human societies,
but the histories of cattle breeds and populations have been poorly understood especially …

Domestic animals are excellent models for genetic studies of phenotypic evolution,,. They
have evolved genetic adaptations to a new environment, the farm, and have been subjected …

What is the nature of the genetic changes underlying phenotypic evolution? We have
catalogued 1008 alleles described in the literature that cause phenotypic differences among …

Domesticated plants and animals played crucial roles as models for evolutionary change by
means of natural selection and for establishing the rules of inheritance, originally proposed …