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RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF GENETICS
Volume 40, Issue 6, Pages 644-655Publisher
PLEIADES PUBLISHING INC
DOI: 10.1023/B:RUGE.0000033312.92773.c1
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This paper is a review of the results of the authors obtained in a long-term experiment on fox domestication. Debatable issues of dog evolution are discussed in light of these results. It is demonstrated that genetic physiological mechanisms of the behavior transformation during selection and the nature of the arising phenotypic changes are associated with retarded development of corresponding ontogenetic processes. As a result of this retardation, the adult animals retain juvenile traits of behavior and morphology ( the phenomenon of neoteny). The role of hormonal changes caused by domestication in the evolutionary origin of neoteny is discussed.
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