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Bridging the gap: Multi-sector perspectives on human, domestic animal, and wildlife leptospirosis in Ontario, Canada

Kellie C. Libera, E. Jane Parmley, Katie M. Clow, Lauren E. Grant, J. Scott Weese, Claire M. Jardine

published 05 Feb 2026

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Monitoring the health of wolves (Canis lupus): Integrating conservation and public health

Elisabetta Ferraro, Graziana Da Rold, Roberto Celva, Elisa Dalla Libera, Stefania Leopardi, Giulia Simonato, Paola De Benedictis, Nadia Cappai, Arianna Dissegna, Carlo Vittorio Citterio, Rudi Cassini, Federica Obber

published 14 Jan 2026

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Human emotional odours influence horses’ behaviour and physiology

Plotine Jardat, Alexandra Destrez, Fabrice Damon, Noa Tanguy-Guillo, Anne-Lyse Lainé, Céline Parias, Fabrice Reigner, Vitor H. B. Ferreira, Ludovic Calandreau, Léa Lansade

published 14 Jan 2026

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Grading by size to reduce the opportunity for domestication selection in hatchery-reared steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Miriam B. Obley, Ruth H. Milston-Clements, Stephanie R. Bollmann, Michael S. Blouin

published 16 Dec 2025

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Topography of violent intraspecific aggression in a subset of dogs from directionally selected lines of Canis familiaris

Victoria A. Cussen, Qinyi Lu, Pamela J. Reid

published 19 Nov 2025

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How social and economic policies have affected the genome of mezcal agaves: The contrasting stories of Bacanora and Espadín

Anastasia Klimova, Jesús N. Gutiérrez Rivera, Erika Aguirre-Planter, Luis E. Eguiarte

published 03 Oct 2025

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Continuous or discrete magnitudes? A comparative study between cats, dogs and humans

Mireia Solé Pi, Luz A. Espino, Péter Szenczi, Marcos Rosetti, Oxána Bánszegi

published 01 Oct 2025

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Comparison of cellular responses of cultured fibroblasts from Iriomote wild cats and domestic cats exposure to polyinosinic:polycytidylic acid

Masafumi Katayama, Ayusa Kataoka, Tomokazu Fukuda, Manabu Onuma

published 25 Sep 2025

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Increased brain size of the dwarf Channel Island fox (Urocyon littoralis) challenges “Island Syndrome” and suggests little evidence of domestication

Kimberly A. Schoenberger, Xiaoming Wang, Suzanne Edmands

published 20 Aug 2025

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Cultural, economic, and settlement shifts over the last 9,000 years at Kakapel Rockshelter, Western Kenya

Steven T. Goldstein, Natalie G. Mueller, Emma Finestone, Elizabeth A. Sawchuk, Sara Juengst, Anthony Odera Otwani, Jennifer M. Miller, Michelle C. Langley, Ricardo Fernandes, Axel Steinhof, Victor Iminjili, Christine Chepkorir, Anneke Janzen, Christine Ogola, Emmanuel Ndiema, Michael Petraglia, Nicole Boivin

published 20 Aug 2025

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Non-exchangeable hydrogen (δ²H) stable isotope ratios in fauna provide enhanced dietary, isotopic niche and home range reconstruction at Aqaba Castle, Jordan

Gene T. Shev, Bea De Cupere, Anastasia Brozou, Benjamin T. Fuller, Marcello A. Mannino, Joris Peters, Wim Van Neer, Steven Bouillon, Claudio Ottoni

published 01 Aug 2025

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Object permanence in domestic cats (Felis catus) using violation-of-expectancy by owner and stranger

Jemma Forman, Jordan S. Rowe, David A. Leavens

published 09 Jul 2025

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Domestication as the driver of lower chronic stress levels in fish in catch-and-release recreational fisheries and aquaculture versus wild conspecifics

Ahmad Ghazal, Richard Paul, Ali Serhan Tarkan, Irmak Kurtul, Josephine Pegg, Demetra Andreou, J. Robert Britton

published 25 Jun 2025

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