
TWiEVO 85: Teaching old dogs new genetic tricks
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Is There a Connection Between Adipose and Neurodevelopment?
The most significant enrichment was for subcutaneous Adipose consistent with selective breeding aimed at morphology. So yeah a different set of changes that affect Fat and that makes the dog attractive or not, right? That reminds me a little bit of so some of the pigeon work actually so there are these weird Speaking of behaviors. There are these pigeons called rollers and When they try to fly I think Mike was telling us about this on tweet 0 7 They instead of flying like they're kind of messed up in their Behavior and they end up rolling. And then breeders think this is like interesting and they race rollers against each other but it's being linked to genes that in humans have been
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