... to the human presence, as a behavioral trait favoring domestication. The study was carried out on minipiglets from population bred at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics (Novosibirsk, Russia). We compared the behavior, metabolism of monoaminergic neurotransmitter systems, and functional activity...

...Julia Mehlhorn; Svenja Caspers The avian class is characterized by particularly strong variability in their domesticated species. With more than 250 breeds and highly efficient commercial lines, domestic chickens represent the outcome of a really long period of artificial selection. One...

... evolutionary history, and led to our distinctive mode of cognition, which includes language skills. In this paper we explore this hypothesis, focusing on the self-domestication of the human species. This has been claimed to account for many human-specific distinctive traits, including aspects of our behavior...

...Dieter Plogmann; Dieter Kruska The size of certain brain parts involved in the processing of auditory stimuli was measured in European wild boars (Sus scrofa) and domestic pigs (Sus scrofa f. dom.). By means of intraspecific allometric methods for analyzing the brain weight to body weight...

... with domestication as well as with cageing of individuals and with postnatal and seasonal size changes known from some soricid species as the so-called Dehnel phenomenon. 17 1 2008 © 1993 S. Karger AG, Basel 1993 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved. No part...

...Peter Ebinger The sizes and histological differentiation of structures in the central nervous system of wild and domestic ducks were compared using allometric methods. Whole brain volume is 14.3% less in domestic ducks than in wild birds, and the size of certain brain structures is more variable...

...Gerd Rehkämper; Heiko D. Frahm; Julia Cnotka Brain sizes and brain component sizes of five domesticated pigeon breeds including homing (racing) pigeons are compared with rock doves (Columba livia) based on an allometric approach to test the influence of domestication on brain and brain component...

...Jonathan M. Shupe; Deborah M. Kristan; Steven N. Austad; Deborah L. Stenkamp Evolutionary effects of domestication have been demonstrated for several body systems, including the eye, and for several vertebrate species, including the mouse. Given the importance of the laboratory mouse to vision...

... with their domesticated relatives. Domestication has generally led to a brain size decrease, but species on higher encephalization plateaus show this trend more strongly than species on a lower level of encephalization. Several brain parts and the sense organs also decrease in size during the domestication process...

... at the end of the Messinian Salinity Crisis (Miocene-Pliocene boundary, 5.2 Mya). The changes in the central nervous system of Myotragus parallel the pattern reported for domesticated animals, in which decrease in relative brain size is accompanied by a decrease in the relative size of their sense organs. We...

...Gerd Rehkämper; Emriye Kart; Heiko D. Frahm; Christian W. Werner In 80 domestic chickens from 8 breeds, the volumes of 12 brain parts were identified as dimensions in a cluster analysis. Based on Euclidean metrics and the Ward algorithm at least 2 groups were found that are congruent...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. White Crested Polish chickens Brain size Brain structure volumes Domestication Allometry In the wild, an animal population may appear relatively homogeneous...