The legacy of domestication: Accumulation of deleterious mutations in the dog genome

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2331-2336

  Cruz, Fernando ^a   Vilà, Carles ^b,c   Webster, Matthew T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; Dog genome; Domestication; Genetic drift; Purifying selection; Selective constraint

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; DOMESTICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WOLF;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CATS; DOGS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WOLVES;

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 54149110152     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn177     Document Type: Article

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