The "domestication syndrome" in mammals: A unified explanation based on neural crest cell behavior and genetics

Genetics

Volumn 197, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 795-808

  Wilkins, Adam S ^a,b   Wrangham, Richard W ^a,c   Tecumseh Fitch, W ^d  

^a Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study   (South Africa)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DOMESTICATION; DOMESTICATION SYNDROME; EAR; EPIGENETICS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FACE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; JAW; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; NEURAL CREST; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; PIGMENTATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; SYNDROME; THINKING; TOOTH SIZE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; NEURAL CREST; SYNDROME;

EID: 84904266596     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.114.165423     Document Type: Article

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