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Diet adaptation in dog reflects spread of prehistoric agriculture

Adaptations allowing dogs to thrive on a diet rich in starch, including a significant AMY2B copy number gain, constituted a crucial step in the evolution of the dog from the wolf. It is however not clear whether this change was associated with the initial domestication, or represents a secondary shi...

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Autores principales: Arendt, M, Cairns, K M, Ballard, J W O, Savolainen, P, Axelsson, E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5061917/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27406651
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/hdy.2016.48