Yuriev-Polskiy Regional Center, Vladimir Region, Soviet Union.
Awards
•Gold and Silver medals of the Exhibition of Economic Achievements of the USSR (Domesticated foxes) •Prize of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR named acad. N.I. Vavilov (1985) •The Order of the Badge of Honor (August 21, 1986) •Winner of 2018 The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)/Subaru Science Books & Film Prizes for Excellence in Science Books
Lyudmila Nikolayevna Trut (Russian: Людми́ла Никола́евна Трут, born 6 November 1933) is a Russian geneticist, ethologist, and evolutionist. She is known for developing domesticated silver foxes from wild foxes with Dmitry Belyayev at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia. The experiment, started in 1952, continues to this day covering nearly 60 generations of silver foxes selected for "tameness."[1] She has held the positions of Senior researcher for Evolutionary genetics, Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB AS USSR, from 1969 to 1985; Head of Laboratory for Evolutionary Genetics, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, USSR, 1985 to 1990; Main Scientific Employee in the Laboratory for Evolutionary Genetics, Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB AS USSR, 1990 until the present; and Professor in Genetics, 2003 to the present at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics.[2][3] Today she coordinates educational activities at the experimental fox farm at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk, Russia. Trut was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.[4]
^Trut, Lyudmila; Dugatkin, Lee Alan (2017). "How to Build a Dog". Scientific American. 316 (5): 68–73. Bibcode:2017SciAm.316e..68T. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0517-68. PMID 28437410.
^Browne, Malcolm (March 30, 1999). "New Breed of Fox as Tame as a Pussycat". New York Times.
^Dugatkin, L.A.; Trut, L.N. (2017). How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 240.
^"New Members". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
Lyudmila Nikolayevna Trut (Russian: Людми́ла Никола́евна Трут, born 6 November 1933) is a Russian geneticist, ethologist, and evolutionist. She is known...
the domestication process from its inception with a given species. LyudmilaTrut was a graduate who was chosen as manager of the program. In 1952, she...
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