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Cats and humans have shared the same households for at least 9,000 years, but we still know very little about how our feline friends became domesticated. An analysis of the cat genome by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis reveals some surprising clues.

The research appears Nov. 10 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition.

SOURCE

http://phys.org/news/2014-11-fondness-cats-pets.html

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Montague MJ, Li G, Wilson RK, Lyons LA, Murphy WJ and Warren WC et al. Comparative analysis of the domestic cat genome reveals genetic signatures underlying feline biology and domestication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition. Nov. 10, 2014. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1410083111