Silver fox (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Kukekova. Jennifer Johnson. Anastasiya Kharlamova. Rimma Gulevich. Lyudmila Trut.

Domestication as a special form of evolution offers valuable insight into how genomic variation contributes to complex differences in behavioral and morphological phenotypes. The silver fox (Vulpes vulpes) is taxonomically close to the dog but normally exhibit distinct patterns of aggressive and fear-aggressive behavior to humans. At the Institute of Cytology and Genetics (ICG) in Novosibirsk, Russia the process of animal domestication has been experimentally reconstructed and a strain of...