Reply to Bar-Oz et al.: Commensalism and mutualism as early incentives for cat domestication

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Yaowu Hu et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014.

. 2014 Mar 11;111(10):E877.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1401179111.

No abstract available

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Earliest evidence for commensal processes of cat domestication.
Hu Y, Hu S, Wang W, Wu X, Marshall FB, Chen X, Hou L, Wang C. Hu Y, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Jan 7;111(1):116-20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1311439110. Epub 2013 Dec 16. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014. PMID: 24344279 Free PMC article.
Cats in recent Chinese study on cat domestication are commensal, not domesticated.
Bar-Oz G, Weissbrod L, Tsahar E. Bar-Oz G, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Mar 11;111(10):E876. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1324177111. Epub 2014 Feb 21. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014. PMID: 24563384 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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