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. 2014 Mar 11;111(10):E876.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1324177111. Epub 2014 Feb 21.

Cats in recent Chinese study on cat domestication are commensal, not domesticated

Guy Bar-Oz  1 , Lior Weissbrod, Ella Tsahar
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Cats in recent Chinese study on cat domestication are commensal, not domesticated

Guy Bar-Oz et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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