The domestication of vertebrates is the mutual relationship between vertebrate animals including birds and mammals, and the humans who have influence on...

Domestication syndrome refers to two sets of phenotypic traits that are common to either domesticated plants or domesticated animals. Domesticated animals...

Self-domestication is a scientific hypothesis that suggests that, similar to domesticated animals, there has been a process of artificial selection among...

two hypotheses about its domestication; one said that there were two foci for domestication, one in the Lacandon Jungle area of Mexico and another in lowland...

(2010) consider the domestication of western honey bees, at best, partial. Oldroyd observes that the lack of full domestication is somewhat surprising...

gallus domesticus) is a large and round short-winged bird, domesticated from the red junglefowl of Southeast Asia around 8,000 years ago. Most chickens are...

was domesticated from red junglefowl about 8,000 years ago, with this domestication event involving multiple maternal origins. Since then, their domestic...

upon the domestication of dogs. In the two-part documentary, she was called upon multiple times to give insight into the process of domestication and the...

fastest known class of vertebrate muscles, contracting as much as 10 times faster than muscles vertebrates use for running. This class of muscles is usually...

Felidae. Recent advances in archaeology and genetics have shown that the domestication of the cat occurred in the Near East around 7500 BC. It is commonly kept...

of the African fauna. The muskox is confined to the arctic tundra. Several bovid species have been domesticated by human beings. The domestication of...

species are domesticated. Although relatively few genes control domestication, and wild and domesticated forms are interfertile, wild and domesticated wheats...

a large fowl, one of the two species in the genus Meleagris and the same species as the wild turkey. Although turkey domestication was thought to have...

challenging in such vertebrates as house mice. The process of plant breeding has been used for thousands of years, and began with the domestication of wild plants...

species have been described, of which around 1.05 million are insects, over 85,000 are molluscs, and around 65,000 are vertebrates. It has been estimated there...

hagfish and lampreys. Jawed vertebrates appeared 100 million years later, in the Silurian. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/vertintro.html Berkeley...

directional selection – Theodosius Dobzhansky – dog breeding – domestication – domestication of the horse E. coli long-term evolution experiment – ecological...

in addition to fungi, invertebrates, eggs, carrion, fish, and small vertebrates like rodents, small birds, frogs, lizards, and snakes. Although all ratites...

analysis. Domestication may have also led to more varieties of coat colors. Evidence of common descent Equus gallicus List of Perissodactyla taxa List of horse...

in religions of the ancient Near East. Its horns were used in votive offerings, as trophies and drinking horns. Two aurochs domestication events occurred...

study of an animal population modeling according to human domestication needs. The current group of domesticated silver foxes are the result of nearly...

and consuming large vertebrates. It usually nests on a river bank, but not always near water. It is highly gregarious outside of the breeding season and...

their parents. The silver fox is a melanistic form of the wild red fox. Though rare, domestication has been documented in silver foxes. The most notable...

reproduce sexually with external fertilization, including many basal vertebrates. Vertebrates (such as reptiles, some fish, and most birds) reproduce with internal...

simply known as the canary (Serinus canaria forma domestica), is a domesticated form of the wild canary, a small songbird in the finch family originating...

a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (/ˈeɪviːz/), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled...

Williamson, Kenneth (1951) "The wrens of Fair Isle", Ibis 93(4): pp. 599–601, Retrieved 12 March 2011 "Endemic Vertebrates of Shetland" Archived 26 July 2011...

domestication of papaya Yh chromosome". Genome Research. 25 (4): 524–533. doi:10.1101/gr.183905.114. PMC 4381524. PMID 25762551. "Biological Basis of...

consideration of the domesticated cat. The process of domestication has allowed for closer observation of cat behaviour and in the increased incidence of interspecies...

were domesticated by 8,500 BC in the Near East and 6,000 BC in China. Domestication of horses dates to around 4,000 BC. Cattle have been domesticated since...