Genetics and animal domestication: New windows on an elusive process

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 269, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 261-271

  Dobney, K ^a   Larson, G ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Domestication; Genetics; Molecular clocks; Paedomorphosis; Phylogeography

Indexed keywords

DOMESTICATION; GENETICS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33646894651     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: 14697998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2006.00042.x     Document Type: Review

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