Early canid domestication: The farm-fox experiment: Foxes bred for tamability in a 40-year experiment exhibit remarkable transformations that suggest an interplay between behavioral genetics and development

American Scientist

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 160-169

  Trut, Lyudmila N ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 0001227499     PISSN: 00030996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1511/1999.2.160     Document Type: Article

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