Sociality genes are associated with human-directed social behaviour in golden and Labrador retriever dogs

Background Dogs have human-directed social skills that allow them to communicate and cooperate with humans. We have previously identified two loci on chromosome 26 associated with human contact-seeking behaviors during an unsolvable problem task in laboratory beagles (Persson et al., 2016). The aim...

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Main Authors: Mia E. Persson, Ann-Sofie Sundman, Lise-Lotte Halldén, Agaia J. Trottier, Per Jensen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2018-11-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/5889.pdf