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  • Perspective
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4 Citations
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16 April 2021

Domestication is one of the fundamental process that has shaped our world in the last 12,000 years. Changes in the morphology, genetics, and behavior of plants and animals have redefined our interactions with our environments and ourselves. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,172 Views
14 Pages

Analysis of Domestication Loci in Wild Rice Populations

  • Sharmin Hasan,
  • Agnelo Furtado and
  • Robert Henry

20 January 2023

The domestication syndrome is defined as a collection of domestication-related traits that have undergone permanent genetic changes during the domestication of cereals. Australian wild rice populations have not been exposed to gene flow from domestic...

  • Review
  • Open Access
88 Citations
18,069 Views
35 Pages

Disentangling Domestication from Food Production Systems in the Neotropics

  • Charles R. Clement,
  • Alejandro Casas,
  • Fabiola Alexandra Parra-Rondinel,
  • Carolina Levis,
  • Nivaldo Peroni,
  • Natalia Hanazaki,
  • Laura Cortés-Zárraga,
  • Selene Rangel-Landa,
  • Rubana Palhares Alves and
  • Guilherme Gerhardt Mazzochini
  • + 10 authors

28 January 2021

The Neolithic Revolution narrative associates early-mid Holocene domestications with the development of agriculture that fueled the rise of late Holocene civilizations. This narrative continues to be influential, even though it has been deconstructed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,417 Views
19 Pages

Does the Domestication Syndrome Apply to the Domestic Pig? Not Completely

  • Edoardo Collarini,
  • Marika Gioia,
  • Giada Cordoni and
  • Ivan Norscia

17 September 2022

The ‘domestication syndrome’ defines a suite of features that domesticated animals possess as the result of the artificial selection operated by Homo sapiens since the Neolithic. An interesting anthropological question is whether such fea...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
17,321 Views
17 Pages

Being a Dog: A Review of the Domestication Process

  • Domenico Tancredi and
  • Irene Cardinali

27 April 2023

The process of canine domestication represents certainly one of the most interesting questions that evolutionary biology aims to address. A “multiphase” view of this process is now accepted, with a first phase during which different group...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
13,847 Views
17 Pages

15 October 2015

Domestication is a long and endless process during which animals become, generations after generations, more adapted to both captive conditions and humans. Compared to land animals, domestication of fish species has started recently. This implies tha...

  • Review
  • Open Access
173 Citations
23,970 Views
22 Pages

The Impact of Genetic Changes during Crop Domestication

  • Petr Smýkal,
  • Matthew N. Nelson,
  • Jens D. Berger and
  • Eric J.B. Von Wettberg

Humans have domesticated hundreds of plant and animal species as sources of food, fiber, forage, and tools over the past 12,000 years, with manifold effects on both human society and the genetic structure of the domesticated species. The outcomes of...

  • Abstract
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,459 Views
1 Page

Diversity of Domestication Loci in Wild Rice Populations

  • Sharmin Hasan,
  • Agnelo Furtado and
  • Robert Henry

Domestication syndrome, i.e. seed shattering, seed dormancy and plant architecture have been selected during the domestication of wild rice around 10,000 years ago. These traits evolved through a series of genomic modifications, including selection o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,764 Views
16 Pages

Consequences of Domestication on Gut Microbiome: A Comparative Analysis Between Wild Boars and Domestic Pigs

  • Da-Yun Bae,
  • Sung-Hyun Moon,
  • Taek Geun Lee,
  • Young-Seung Ko,
  • Yun-Chae Cho,
  • Hamin Kang,
  • Chan-Soo Park,
  • Jung-Sun Kang,
  • Yeonsu Oh and
  • Ho-Seong Cho

5 March 2025

The gut microbiota plays a vital role in the physiological functions and health of animals. Domestic pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus) and wild boars (Sus scrofa scrofa), which share a common ancestor, present a unique model for exploring the evolutionary...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,622 Views
14 Pages

Advances in Genomics Approaches Shed Light on Crop Domestication

  • Yang Zhao,
  • Mengfan Feng,
  • Dev Paudel,
  • Tofazzal Islam,
  • Aliya Momotaz,
  • Ziliang Luo,
  • Zifan Zhao,
  • Ni Wei,
  • Sicheng Li and
  • Jianping Wang
  • + 3 authors

30 July 2021

Crop domestication occurred ~10,000–12,000 years ago when humans shifted from a hunter–gatherer to an agrarian society. Crops were domesticated by selecting the traits in wild plant species that were suitable for human use. Research is crucial to elu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
117 Citations
22,995 Views
32 Pages

29 March 2010

The emergence of sedentism and agriculture in Amazonia continues to sit uncomfortably within accounts of South American pre-Columbian history. This is partially because deep-seated models were formulated when only ceramic evidence was known, partly b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,963 Views
24 Pages

Domestication over Speciation in Allopolyploid Cotton Species: A Stronger Transcriptomic Pull

  • Josef J. Jareczek,
  • Corrinne E. Grover,
  • Guanjing Hu,
  • Xianpeng Xiong,
  • Mark A. Arick II,
  • Daniel G. Peterson and
  • Jonathan F. Wendel

20 June 2023

Cotton has been domesticated independently four times for its fiber, but the genomic targets of selection during each domestication event are mostly unknown. Comparative analysis of the transcriptome during cotton fiber development in wild and cultiv...

  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,308 Views
23 Pages

Perennial Grain Legume Domestication Phase I: Criteria for Candidate Species Selection

  • Brandon Schlautman,
  • Spencer Barriball,
  • Claudia Ciotir,
  • Sterling Herron and
  • Allison J. Miller

7 March 2018

Annual cereal and legume grain production is dependent on inorganic nitrogen (N) and other fertilizers inputs to resupply nutrients lost as harvested grain, via soil erosion/runoff, and by other natural or anthropogenic causes. Temperate-adapted pere...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
9,144 Views
20 Pages

Molecular Evidence for Two Domestication Events in the Pea Crop

  • Oldřich Trněný,
  • Jan Brus,
  • Iveta Hradilová,
  • Abhishek Rathore,
  • Roma R. Das,
  • Pavel Kopecký,
  • Clarice J. Coyne,
  • Patrick Reeves,
  • Christopher Richards and
  • Petr Smýkal

6 November 2018

Pea, one of the founder crops from the Near East, has two wild species: Pisum sativum subsp. elatius, with a wide distribution centered in the Mediterranean, and P. fulvum, which is restricted to Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine and Jordan. Using ge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,285 Views
14 Pages

Gastrocnemius Muscle Structural and Functional Changes Associated with Domestication in the Turkey

  • Kristin K. Stover,
  • David A. Sleboda,
  • Elizabeth L. Brainerd and
  • Thomas J. Roberts

22 June 2021

Selection for increased muscle mass in domestic turkeys has resulted in muscles twice the size of those found in wild turkeys. This study characterizes muscle structural changes as well as functional differences in muscle performance associated with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,820 Views
20 Pages

Fish as Model Systems to Study Epigenetic Drivers in Human Self-Domestication and Neurodevelopmental Cognitive Disorders

  • Dafni Anastasiadi,
  • Francesc Piferrer,
  • Maren Wellenreuther and
  • Antonio Benítez Burraco

31 May 2022

Modern humans exhibit phenotypic traits and molecular events shared with other domesticates that are thought to be by-products of selection for reduced aggression. This is the human self-domestication hypothesis. As one of the first types of response...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,943 Views
13 Pages

De Novo Domestication Concept for Potato Germplasm Enhancement

  • Anastasiya A. Egorova,
  • Nadezhda A. Chalaya,
  • Ivan N. Fomin,
  • Alisa I. Barchuk and
  • Sophia V. Gerasimova

12 February 2022

Wild potato germplasm serves as a natural pool of agronomically valuable traits for potato breeding, such as resistance to pathogens and abiotic stresses, quality, and consumer-oriented traits. The introgression of these traits into cultivated potato...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,906 Views
14 Pages

Rapeseed Domestication Affects the Diversity of Rhizosphere Microbiota

  • Zhen Zhang,
  • Lu Chang,
  • Xiuxiu Liu,
  • Jing Wang,
  • Xianhong Ge,
  • Jiasen Cheng,
  • Jiatao Xie,
  • Yang Lin,
  • Yanping Fu and
  • Tao Chen
  • + 1 author

Rhizosphere microbiota is important for plant growth and health. Domestication is a process to select suitable plants to satisfy the needs of humans, which may have great impacts on the interaction between the host and its rhizosphere microbiota. Rap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,049 Views
20 Pages

14 January 2022

The domestication process of cultivated barley in China remains under debate because of the controversial origins of barley. Here, we analyzed transcriptomic and non-targeted metabolic data from 29 accessions together with public resequencing data fr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
11,984 Views
18 Pages

10 October 2018

Asian rice (Oryza sativa) and African rice (Oryza glaberrima) are separately domesticated from their wild ancestors Oryza rufipogon and Oryza barthii, which are very sensitive to daylength. In the process of domestication, some traits that are favora...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,436 Views
12 Pages

The Perspective of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis in Rice Domestication and Breeding

  • Renliang Huang,
  • Zheng Li,
  • Xianhua Shen,
  • Jeongmin Choi and
  • Yangrong Cao

16 October 2022

In nature, symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi contributes to sustainable acquisition of phosphorus and other elements in over 80% of plant species; improving interactions with AM symbionts may mitigate some of the environmental problems...

  • Review
  • Open Access
406 Views
31 Pages

The Genomic Landscape of Cattle: Domestication, Dispersal, and Adaptive Evolution

  • Yiduan Liu,
  • Wenbin Dao,
  • Ruixia Gao,
  • Xinyang Fan,
  • Ruifei Yang and
  • Yongwang Miao

2 March 2026

Domestic cattle represent one of the most significant evolutionary successes in the history of human–animal mutualism. This review synthesizes evidence from paleogenomics and modern population genetics, particularly recent pangenome analyses, t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,639 Views
9 Pages

21 June 2023

Being in an advanced stage of domestication is a newly proposed requirement to decide which animals can be safely kept by humans. Dutch legislators were the first to apply it and other European countries may be tempted to adopt a similar approach. Un...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,479 Views
19 Pages

Future-Proofing Agriculture: De Novo Domestication for Sustainable and Resilient Crops

  • Ugo Rogo,
  • Samuel Simoni,
  • Marco Fambrini,
  • Tommaso Giordani,
  • Claudio Pugliesi and
  • Flavia Mascagni

17 February 2024

The worldwide agricultural system confronts a significant challenge represented by the increasing demand for food in the face of a growing global population. This challenge is exacerbated by a reduction in cultivable land and the adverse effects of c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,582 Views
21 Pages

WBSCR Locus: At the Crossroads of Human Behavioral Disorders and Domestication of Animals

  • Mikhail V. Shepelev,
  • Olga I. Skobel,
  • Tatiana T. Glazko,
  • Dmitry V. Popov,
  • Denis E. Vysotskii,
  • Pavel G. Georgiev,
  • Oksana G. Maksimenko,
  • Gleb Y. Kosovsky and
  • Yuliya Y. Silaeva

3 September 2025

Social interaction between the domesticated animal and the domesticator is one of the key features of the “domestication syndrome”. Recent research has identified genes in the WBSCR (Williams–Beuren syndrome control region) locus as...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,368 Views
19 Pages

20 December 2021

During evolution, several types of sequences pass through genomes. Along with mutations and internal genetic tinkering, they are a useful source of genetic variability for adaptation and evolution. Most of these sequences are acquired by horizontal t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,105 Views
26 Pages

Agro-Morphological Exploration of Some Unexplored Wild Vigna Legumes for Domestication

  • Difo Voukang Harouna,
  • Pavithravani B. Venkataramana,
  • Athanasia O. Matemu and
  • Patrick Alois Ndakidemi

13 January 2020

The domestication of novel or hitherto wild food crops is quickly becoming one of the most popular approaches in tackling the challenges associated with sustainable food crop production, especially in this era, where producing more food with fewer re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,695 Views
15 Pages

Biological Characteristics and Domestication of a Wild Hericium coralloides

  • Ji-Ling Song,
  • Ya Xin,
  • Zu-Fa Zhou,
  • Xue-Ping Kang,
  • Yang Zhang,
  • Wei-Dong Yuan and
  • Bin Yu

Hericium coralloides is a highly valued gourmet and medicinal species with growing market demand across East Asia, though industrial production remains limited by cultivation challenges. This study investigated the molecular characteristics, biologic...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
12,327 Views
19 Pages

31 July 2021

Domesticated Cucurbita has been remarked as one of the plant genera with the highest diversity in color, shape and fruit dimensions. Their economic and cultural values are related to the consumption of the mature or immature fruits, seeds, flowers, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,192 Views
13 Pages

Domestication in Real Time: The Curious Case of a Trigenomic Sunflower Population

  • Jill M. Ekar,
  • Kevin J. Betts,
  • Adam C. Herman,
  • Robert M. Stupar,
  • Donald L. Wyse,
  • Yaniv Brandvain and
  • Michael B. Kantar

31 October 2019

This study chronicles the ongoing process to domesticate an interspecific trigenomic tetraploid hybrid sunflower derived from a series of interspecific crosses between Helianthus annuus and Helianthus tuberosus. The goal of this process is to develop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,372 Views
10 Pages

Biological Characteristics, Domestication and Cultivation of Wild Tyromyces kmetii

  • Haichen Huang,
  • Xiaomin Li,
  • Xin Hu,
  • Huijuan Sun,
  • Junli Zhang,
  • Xiaoping Wu and
  • Junsheng Fu

To develop and utilize the wild fungi resources in Tibet, a wild fungal specimen collected from Qiangna Town, Milin County, Tibet was isolated, purified, and characterized. Through morphological examination and ITS sequence analysis, the strain&mdash...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,341 Views
12 Pages

Preliminary Evidence for Domestication Effects on the Genetic Diversity of Guazuma crinita in the Peruvian Amazon

  • Lady Laura Tuisima-Coral,
  • Petra Hlásná Čepková,
  • John C. Weber and
  • Bohdan Lojka

23 July 2020

Guazuma crinita, a fast-growing timber tree species, was chosen for domestication in the Peruvian Amazon because it can be harvested at an early age and it contributes to the livelihood of local farmers. Although it is in an early stage of domesticat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,317 Views
14 Pages

29 March 2022

Mitochondrial DNA and nonrecombinant parts of Y-chromosome DNA are a great tool for looking at a species’ past. They are inherited for generations almost unaffected because they do not participate in recombination; thus, the time of occurrence...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,903 Views
14 Pages

15 June 2021

A “cultivation prior to domestication”, or a “pre-domestication cultivation” phase features in many reconstructions of Near Eastern plant domestication. Archaeobotanists who accept this notion search for evidence to support the assumption regarding a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
639 Views
16 Pages

Phylogenetic Divergence and Domestication Jointly Shape the Tomato Root Microbiome

  • Grigorios Thomaidis,
  • Georgios Boutzikas,
  • Athanasios Alexopoulos and
  • Christos Zamioudis

5 January 2026

Domestication reduced the genetic diversity in modern crops, often resulting in reduced resilience to biotic and abiotic stress. Evidence is now accumulating that domestication also altered the structure and function of root-associated microbiomes, c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
10,968 Views
23 Pages

Saccharomyces cerevisiae—the most emblematic and industrially relevant yeast—has a long list of taxonomical synonyms. Formerly considered as distinct species, some of the synonyms represent variants with important industrial implications,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,289 Views
23 Pages

The Domestication and Dispersal of Large-Fruiting Prunus spp.: A Metadata Analysis of Archaeobotanical Material

  • Rita Dal Martello,
  • Madelynn von Baeyer,
  • Mark Hudson,
  • Rasmus G. Bjorn,
  • Christian Leipe,
  • Barbara Zach,
  • Basira Mir-Makhamad,
  • Traci N. Billings,
  • Irene M. Muñoz Fernández and
  • Robert N. Spengler
  • + 6 authors

30 March 2023

The Prunus genus contains many of the most economically significant arboreal crops, cultivated globally, today. Despite the economic significance of these domesticated species, the pre-cultivation ranges, processes of domestication, and routes of pre...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,013 Views
22 Pages

16 February 2022

Legumes are one of the most economically important and biodiverse families in plants recognised as the basis to develop functional foods. Among these, the Vigna genus stands out as a good representative because of its relatively recent African origin...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,069 Views
12 Pages

Rhizosphere Microbiome Co-Occurrence Network Analysis across a Tomato Domestication Gradient

  • Mary M. Dixon,
  • Antisar Afkairin,
  • Daniel K. Manter and
  • Jorge Vivanco

When plant-available phosphorus (P) is lost from a soil solution, it often accumulates in the soil as a pool of unavailable legacy P. To acquire legacy P, plants employ recovery strategies, such as forming associations with soil microbes. However, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,232 Views
10 Pages

There has been a surge of research on Home Children in the past several decades, as the phenomenon previously unknown to many came into the spotlight. However, much of the historical research has focused on either the psychological and physical impac...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,826 Views
3 Pages

Eco-cognitive computationalism considers computation in the context of following some of the main tenets advanced by the recent cognitive science views on embodied, situated and distributed cognition. It is in the framework of this eco-cognitive pers...

  • Review
  • Open Access
51 Citations
6,789 Views
22 Pages

6 March 2021

During plant domestication and improvement, farmers select for alleles present in wild species that improve performance in new selective environments associated with cultivation and use. The selected alleles become enriched and other alleles depleted...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,532 Views
17 Pages

14 August 2024

The “cost of domestication” hypothesis suggests that the domestication of wild species increases the number, frequency, and/or proportion of deleterious genetic variants, potentially reducing their fitness in the wild. While extensively s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,683 Views
30 Pages

Assessment of Water Absorption Capacity and Cooking Time of Wild Under-Exploited Vigna Species towards their Domestication

  • Difo Voukang Harouna,
  • Pavithravani B. Venkataramana,
  • Athanasia O. Matemu and
  • Patrick Alois Ndakidemi

4 September 2019

Some phenotypic traits from wild legumes are relatively less examined and exploited towards their domestication and improvement. Cooking time for instance, is one of the most central factors that direct a consumer’s choice for a food legume. Ho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,163 Views
20 Pages

Transcriptome Analyses Throughout Chili Pepper Fruit Development Reveal Novel Insights into the Domestication Process

  • Octavio Martínez,
  • Magda L. Arce-Rodríguez,
  • Fernando Hernández-Godínez,
  • Christian Escoto-Sandoval,
  • Felipe Cervantes-Hernández,
  • Corina Hayano-Kanashiro,
  • José J. Ordaz-Ortiz,
  • M. Humberto Reyes-Valdés,
  • Fernando G. Razo-Mendivil and
  • Neftalí Ochoa-Alejo
  • + 1 author

19 March 2021

Chili pepper (Capsicum spp.) is an important crop, as well as a model for fruit development studies and domestication. Here, we performed a time-course experiment to estimate standardized gene expression profiles with respect to fruit development for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,619 Views
13 Pages

23 October 2023

In theoretical biology, a prevailing hypothesis posits a profound interconnection between effective population size (Ne), genetic diversity, inbreeding, and genetic load. The domestication and improvement processes are believed to be pivotal in dimin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,662 Views
14 Pages

8 August 2023

Kañawa/Cañihua (Chenopodium pallidicaule Aellen) is the lesser-known cousin of the domesticated Andean pseudocereal quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.). In 1970, Daniel Gade hypothesized that Andean farmers may have domesticated voluntee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
104 Citations
9,443 Views
19 Pages

Development and Evolution of an Intermediate Wheatgrass Domestication Program

  • Lee DeHaan,
  • Marty Christians,
  • Jared Crain and
  • Jesse Poland

Ecological intensification of agriculture is a proposed strategy to enhance the production of food while expanding ecosystem services and reducing inputs. Perennial plants that are directly harvested for human food are a novel means of ecological int...

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