Sentence examples for initial domestication from inspiring English sources

Similarly, the indistinguishable matrilineal components among different breeds/regional populations of both domestic ducks and wild mallards have deterred any attempts to elucidate the initial domestication site(s) of Chinese domestic ducks.

After the initial domestication in China, the Chinese domestic ducks were subsequently introduced into Japan via Taiwan [ 9].

This division was also observed in a study of SNP diversity in the D-genome (Wang et al. 2013), and may reflect the ancestral eastward and westward expansion of agriculture (and of domesticated T. aestivum) after its initial domestication in the Fertile Crescent roughly 10,000 years ago (Dubcovsky and Dvorak 2007).

Considering our data from the Bronze Age horses, it appears that domestic horses spread soon after their initial domestication.

It is estimated that the initial domestication process that produced the basic maize form required at least several hundred to perhaps a few thousand years.

The initial domestication of plants and animals, and the development of agricultural economies and landscapes are identified as marking the beginning of the Anthropocene epoch.

Breeding for dependence, not cooperation, may have driven initial dog domestication.

Like previous researchers (e.g., Darwin 1875; Belyaev 1974; Trut 1999), we begin with the assumption that a primary selective pressure during the initial stages of domestication is on behavior, and in particular for tameness (lack of fearful or aggressive responses to human caretakers).

Cattle, at the initial stages of domestication, produced a small amount of milk, sufficient only to rear their calves.

Sheep and goats were also eaten in the initial stages of domestication but later became valuable for producing the commodities of milk and wool.

Here, it has been argued that rice grains used to temper pottery show signs of initial or early domestication.