Natural history collections are invaluable repositories of biological information that provide
an unrivaled record of Earth's biodiversity. Museum genomics—genomics research using …

Dogs perform a variety of integral roles in our society, engaging in work ranging from
assistance (eg, service dogs, guide dogs) and therapy to detection (eg, search-and-rescue …

Our understanding of population history in deep time has been assisted by fitting admixture
graphs (AGs) to data: models that specify the ordering of population splits and mixtures …

Behavioral genetics in dogs has focused on modern breeds, which are isolated subgroups
with distinctive physical and, purportedly, behavioral characteristics. We interrogated breed …

The grey wolf (Canis lupus) was the first species to give rise to a domestic population, and
they remained widespread throughout the last Ice Age when many other large mammal …

Abstract Background The international Dog10K project aims to sequence and analyze
several thousand canine genomes. Incorporating 20× data from 1987 individuals, including …

Advances in the isolation and sequencing of ancient DNA have begun to reveal the
population histories of both people and dogs. Over the last 10,000 y, the genetic signatures …

The adoption of agriculture triggered a rapid shift towards starch-rich diets in human
populations. Amylase genes facilitate starch digestion, and increased amylase copy number …

Based on claims that dogs are less aggressive and show more sophisticated socio-cognitive
skills compared with wolves, dog domestication has been invoked to support the idea that …

Domestic cats and dogs are carnivores that have evolved differentially in the nutrition and
metabolism of amino acids. This article highlights both proteinogenic and nonproteinogenic …