ArticleRoyal Society open science2023
Domestication effect of reduced brain size is reverted when mink become feral.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Welfare of American mink, red and Arctic foxes, raccoon dog and chinchilla kept for fur production.EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2025Article
- From wild to domestic and in between: how domestication and feralization changed the morphology of rabbits.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Captivity alters behaviour but not seasonal brain size change in semi-naturally housed shrews.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Skeletal Phenotyping of Period-1-Deficient Melatonin-Proficient Mice.Journal of pineal research · 2024Article
- How domestication, feralization and experience-dependent plasticity affect brain size variation inRoyal Society open science · 2024Article
- Domestication effect of reduced brain size is reverted when mink become feral.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
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Abstract
A typical consequence of breeding animal species for domestication is a reduction in relative brain size. When domesticated animals escape from captivity and establish feral populations, the larger brain of the wild phenotype is usually not regained. In the American mink (
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