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🔔 The Bolin Centre Annual Report for 2024-2025 is now available on the web!

Explore key research highlights, publications and activities from the past year below. 📑🌳
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Annual reports - Stockholms universitet
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December 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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New study on arctic fox genomics shows strong effects of fur farming: reduced diversity, inbreeding, and coastal origins linked to Icelandic foxes. A reminder that domestication leaves deep genetic footprints.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/mec.70166
That's So Last Season: Unraveling the Genomic Consequences of Fur Farming in Arctic Foxes (Vulpes lagopus)
Humans have relied on animal fur for centuries, yet fur farming only began recently during the mid-19th Century. Little is known about this incipient domestication or the genomic processes involved. ...
doi.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Congrats to @knmoreland.bsky.social for the successful Half Time PhD seminar 🎉🦣🧬
December 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM