The domestication of plants, animals and microorganisms has enabled the development of agriculture, animal husbandry, the processing of their products and, ultimately, civilizations.
The species concerned by domestication, the regions of the world where it could take place, the clues that enable us to identify wild ancestors, the particularly morphological or physiological properties that characterize it, the modified genes, the genetic exchanges that domesticated organisms maintained with their wild ancestors, and the consequences of the structuring of the species that resulted in animal breeds or plant varieties, are all questions that develop studies in the fields of archaeology, sociology, ecology and genetics.
Genetics of Domestications deals with the contribution of modern methods of genetic analysis and genomics to historical knowledge of domestications, their nature and diversity, based on examples of twelve species or groups of species.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Thousands of Years of Relationship between Man and Dog Revealed by Genomics
- Chapter 2. Imprints of Domestication in the Sheep Genome
- Chapter 3. Humans and Pigs: Over Ten Thousand Years of Shared Evolution
- Chapter 4. The Domestication of the Wild Rabbit: Genetic and Genomic Elements
- Chapter 5. Domesticated Poultry: A History Illuminated by Genomics
- Chapter 6. Genetics of Fish Domestication in Aquaculture
- Chapter 7. The Domestication of Yeast
- Chapter 8. The Domestication of Oenococcus oeni: A Bacterium Crafted for Wine Production
- Chapter 9. Tracing the Origins of Wheat Cultivation
- Chapter 10. A History of Cultivated Rice Genomics
- Chapter 11. Grapevine Domestication and Selection
- Chapter 12. Tomato Domestication and Breeding: A Major Contribution from Wild Species
- Chapter 13. Mutagenesis and Accelerated Domestication
- Glossary
- List of Authors
- Index
- EULA
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