Domestication effect of reduced brain size is reverted when mink become feral
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F23%3A10466483" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/23:10466483 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=n3jqz.Z2f5" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=n3jqz.Z2f5</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230463" target="_blank" >10.1098/rsos.230463</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Domestication effect of reduced brain size is reverted when mink become feral
Original language description
A typical consequence of breeding animal species for domestication is a reduction in relative brain size. When domesticated animals escape from captivity and establish feral populations, the larger brain of the wild phenotype is usually not regained. In the American mink (Neovison vison), we found an exception to this rule. We confirmed the previously described reduction in relative braincase size and volume compared to their wild North American ancestors in mink bred for their fur in Poland, in a dataset of 292 skulls. We then also found a significant regrowth of these measures in well-established feral populations in Poland. Closely related, small mustelids are known for seasonal reversible changes in skull and brain size. It seems that these small mustelids are able to regain the brain size, which is adaptive for living in the wild, and flexibly respond to selection accordingly.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10613 - Zoology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF20_079%2F0017987" target="_blank" >EF20_079/0017987: International mobility of researchers at Charles University (MSCA-IF IV)</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Royal Society Open Science
ISSN
2054-5703
e-ISSN
2054-5703
Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
7
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
230463
UT code for WoS article
001022939800004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85165319006