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SUBMITTER: Agnvall B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5468340 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20170612 1
During domestication animals have undergone changes in size of brain and other vital organs. We hypothesize that this could be a correlated effect to increased tameness. Red Junglefowl (ancestors of domestic chickens) were selected for divergent levels of fear of humans for five generations. The parental (P0) and the fifth selected generation (S5) were culled when 48-54 weeks old and the brains were weighed before being divided into telencephalon, cerebellum, mid brain and optic lobes. Each sing ...[more]