2009-01-16 10:24 A new study on pigs, published January 16 in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics, reveals that the prime explanation for the bewildering diversity in coat colour among our pigs, dogs and other domestic animals is that humans have actively changed the coat colour of domestic animals by cherry-picking and actively selecting for rare mutations. This process has been going on for thousands of years.
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Piglets from a cross between European wild boars and Large White domestic pigs segregating for coat colour mutations that have been selected by humans during domestication. Photo: Mats Gerentz, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
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