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Domestic rabbit
The domestic rabbit, also called the pet rabbit, is the domesticated form of the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, kept worldwide for meat, wool, fur, laboratory research, and companionship.
Domestic turkey
Domestic turkey (Meleagris gallopavo gallopavo lineage): a large galliform bird domesticated in Mesoamerica before European contact, re-exported via Europe, bred by artificial insemination, and raised worldwide mainly for lean meat; the U.S. is the largest producer.
Domesticated hedgehog
Domesticated hedgehog, or African pygmy hedgehog (Atelerix albiventris), a spiny nocturnal insectivore bred as a pet since the 1980s; needs 24–29°C warmth, kibble diet, carries Salmonella, banned in some US states.
Domesticated silver fox
Domesticated silver fox: red fox (Vulpes vulpes) color variant bred for tameness since 1959 at the ICG Novosibirsk by Belyaev and Trut; dog-like behavior, serotonin and coat changes, domestication-syndrome debate.
Domestication
Domestication: coevolutionary mutualism in which one species controls another's fitness for resources or services, producing crops, livestock, and pets; began with the wolf at least 15,000 years ago, distinct from taming, and marked by the domestication syndrome.
Domestication of the dog
The domestication of the dog is how gray wolves became the domestic dog, the first animal ever domesticated, in the Old World at least 14,000 years ago.
Domestication of the horse
Domestication of the horse: earliest husbandry evidence at Botai, Kazakhstan, c. 3500 BCE, but modern domestic horses descend from the DOM2 lineage of the Pontic-Caspian steppe, spread globally about 4,200 years ago.
Dominance (genetics)
Dominance (genetics): the relationship describing a heterozygote's effect relative to both homozygotes, quantified by the dominance coefficient h. Covers Mendel's pea crosses, molecular mechanisms, Fisher-Wright debate, and codominance examples like ABO blood type.
Dominance and reproductive conflict in paper wasps
Dominance and reproductive conflict in paper wasps describes how Polistes foundresses form linear hierarchies in which the dominant monopolizes egg-laying, making the genus a standard system for testing social evolution theories.
Dominance hierarchy
Dominance hierarchy, or pecking order, is a ranked social structure in animal groups first described by Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe in chickens in the 1920s, governing access to resources and reproduction.
Dominant Genes
Dominant genes: alleles expressed when only one copy is present, masking the recessive allele. Autosomal dominant disorders need one changed gene, appear in every generation, and pass to children with 50% risk; examples include Huntington's disease and Marfan syndrome.
Dominic Grün
Dominic Grün is a German computational systems biologist, professor at the University of Würzburg since 2021, known for single-cell RNA-seq analysis methods including RaceID, StemID, and VarID2.
Dominic J. Withers
Dominic J. Withers is a British clinician-scientist, Clinical Chair in Diabetes & Endocrinology at Imperial College London, known for showing that IRS-2 disruption causes type 2 diabetes in mice.
Dominic Kwiatkowski
Dominic Kwiatkowski was a British malaria genomics researcher, professor at Oxford and head of the Parasites and Microbes Programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, who founded MalariaGEN in 2005.
Dominican amber
Dominican amber is fossilized tree resin from the Dominican Republic, deposited 15 to 20 million years ago from the extinct tree Hymenaea protera and prized for its exceptional fossil inclusions.
Dominick J. Angiolillo
Dominick J. Angiolillo is an Italian-born American cardiologist who is Chief of Cardiology at the University of Florida – Jacksonville, known for pioneering personalized antiplatelet therapy in coronary interventions.
Dominick P. Purpura
Dominick P. Purpura (1927–2019) was an American neuroscientist known for research on epilepsy and dendritic spines, and dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine from 1984 to 2006.
Dominique Baeten
Dominique Baeten (born 1970) is a Belgian rheumatologist and full professor at Amsterdam UMC, known for leading the clinical trials that established secukinumab as a treatment for ankylosing spondylitis.
Dominique Bergmann
Dominique Bergmann is a developmental biologist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at Stanford who studies cell fate and polarity in the plant stomatal lineage.
Dominique Bonnet
Dominique Bonnet is a French stem cell biologist who identified the leukaemic stem cell of acute myeloid leukemia and leads a lab at the Francis Crick Institute.
Dominique Fourmy
Dominique Fourmy is a CNRS research director at the Laboratory of Biology and Applied Pharmacology, ENS Paris-Saclay, known for structural studies of the ribosomal RNA aminoglycoside binding site.
Dominique J.‐F. de Quervain
Dominique de Quervain, born 1968, is a Swiss behavioral neuroscientist and professor at the University of Basel known for the 1998 Nature finding that glucocorticoids impair memory retrieval.
Dominique Pantaloni
Dominique Pantaloni is a French biochemist and cell biologist at CNRS known for work on actin polymerization, ATP hydrolysis, and actin-based motility at the LEBS laboratory in Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Dominique Prié
Dominique Prié is a French nephrologist and Inserm researcher known for work on the genetics of renal phosphate transport, including the 2002 New England Journal of Medicine study linking NPT2a mutations to hypophosphatemia.
Dominique Rasoloson
Dominique Rasoloson is a lab manager and research specialist at Johns Hopkins University and HHMI, known for work on C. elegans germ granules and cloning-free CRISPR editing.
Dominique Soldati-Favre
Dominique Soldati-Favre is a cell biologist and professor at the University of Geneva who identified the glideosome motor of apicomplexan parasites and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.
Dominique Valla
Dominique Valla, born 1952, is a French hepatologist who led the liver service at Hôpital Beaujon in Clichy and specialized in vascular disorders of the liver.
Dominique Van Der Straeten
Dominique Van Der Straeten is a Belgian plant scientist and senior full professor at Ghent University, known for thermographic detection of plant disease and folate-biofortified rice.
DOMINO trial
DOMINO (Doxycycline versus Macrolides for Mycoplasma pneumoniae INfectiOn in Children) is a planned South Korean multicentre randomised trial, NCT07306234, testing first-line doxycycline versus azithromycin in 208 children aged 3–17 with suspected macrolide-resistant M. pneumoniae pneumonia.
Domoic acid
Domoic acid, also called amnesic shellfish poison, is a glutamate-receptor neurotoxin made by Pseudo-nitzschia diatoms; it accumulates in shellfish, caused the 1987 Prince Edward Island ASP outbreak, and poisons marine mammals.