The silver fox domestication experiment

Abstract For the last 59 years a team of Russian geneticists led by Lyudmila Trut have been running one of the most important biology experiments of the 20th, and now 21st, century. The experiment was the brainchild of Trut’s mentor, Dmitri Belyaev, who, in 1959, began an experiment to study the pro...

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Main Author: Lee Alan Dugatkin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-12-01
Series:Evolution: Education and Outreach
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12052-018-0090-x