The world's domestic cats carry patterns of sequence variation in their genome that reflect a
history of domestication and breed development. A genetic assessment of 979 domestic cats …

Artificial selection is the selection of advantageous natural variation for human ends and is
the mechanism by which most domestic species evolved. Most domesticates have their origin …

… In 2000 one of us (Driscoll) set out to tackle the question by assembling DNA samples from
some 979 wildcats and domestic cats in southern Africa, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia …

Little is known about the genetic changes that distinguish domestic cat populations from
their wild progenitors. Here we describe a high-quality domestic cat reference genome …

Among the 37 living species of Felidae, the clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) is generally
classified as a monotypic genus basal to the Panthera lineage of great cats [1–5]. This …

Nuclear microsatellite loci (2- to 5-bp tandem repeats) would seem to be ideal markers for
population genetic monitoring because of their abundant polymorphism, wide dispersal in …

The Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris virgata) flourished in Central Asian riverine forest systems
in a range disjunct from that of other tigers, but was driven to extinction in 1970 prior to a …

Adaptations to stress can occur through epigenetic processes and may be a conduit for
informing offspring of environmental challenge. We employed ChIP-sequencing for H3K4me3 to …

A phylogeographic analysis of gene sequences important in determining body size in dogs,
recently published in BMC Biology, traces the appearance of small body size to the Neolithic …

Intraspecific diversification of the wildcat (Felis silvestris), including the European wildcat (F.
s. silvestris), the Asian wildcat (F. s. ornata) and the African wildcat (F. s. lybica), was …