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A longitudinal study of phenotypic changes in early domestication of house mice

Similar phenotypic changes occur across many species as a result of domestication, e.g. in pigmentation and snout size. Experimental studies of domestication have concentrated on intense and directed selection regimes, while conditions that approximate the commensal and indirect interactions with hu...

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Autores principales: Geiger, Madeleine, Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R., Lindholm, Anna K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5882729/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29657805
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.172099
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author Geiger, Madeleine
Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R.
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description Similar phenotypic changes occur across many species as a result of domestication, e.g. in pigmentation and snout size. Experimental studies of domestication have concentrated on intense and directed selection regimes, while conditions that approximate the commensal and indirect interactions with humans have not been explored. We examine long-term data on a free-living population of wild house mice that have been indirectly selected for tameness by regular exposure to humans. In the course of a decade, this mouse population exhibited significantly increased occurrence of white patches of fur and decreased head length. These phenotypic changes fit to the predictions of the ‘domestication syndrome'.
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spelling pubmed-58827292018-04-13 A longitudinal study of phenotypic changes in early domestication of house mice Geiger, Madeleine Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R. Lindholm, Anna K. R Soc Open Sci Biology (Whole Organism) Similar phenotypic changes occur across many species as a result of domestication, e.g. in pigmentation and snout size. Experimental studies of domestication have concentrated on intense and directed selection regimes, while conditions that approximate the commensal and indirect interactions with humans have not been explored. We examine long-term data on a free-living population of wild house mice that have been indirectly selected for tameness by regular exposure to humans. In the course of a decade, this mouse population exhibited significantly increased occurrence of white patches of fur and decreased head length. These phenotypic changes fit to the predictions of the ‘domestication syndrome'. The Royal Society Publishing 2018-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5882729/ /pubmed/29657805 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.172099 Text en © 2018 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Geiger, Madeleine
Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R.
Lindholm, Anna K.
A longitudinal study of phenotypic changes in early domestication of house mice
title A longitudinal study of phenotypic changes in early domestication of house mice
title_full A longitudinal study of phenotypic changes in early domestication of house mice
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title_short A longitudinal study of phenotypic changes in early domestication of house mice
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5882729/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29657805
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.172099
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