Fox Bred for Friendly Behavior (IMAGE)

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Fox Bred for Friendly Behavior

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Over generations, foxes have been selected for tame and aggressive behavior at the Russian Institute for Cytology and Genetics. Now that the fox genome has been sequenced, scientists can begin to pinpoint the genetic basis of those behaviors.

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Photo courtesy of Darya Shepeleva, scientist at the Russian Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk.

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Credit Darya Shepeleva, scientist at the Russian Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk.

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