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