Intrinsic Ball Retrieving in Wolf Puppies Suggests Standing Ancestral Variation for Human-Directed Play Behavior

Summary: Domestication dramatically alters phenotypes across animal species. Standing variation among ancestral populations often drives phenotypic change during domestication, but some changes are caused by novel mutations. In dogs (Canis familiaris) specifically, it has been suggested that the abi...

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Main Authors: Christina Hansen Wheat, Hans Temrin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-02-01
Series:iScience
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004219305577