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About Lyudmila Trut
- Lyudmila N.
- Trut (born 6 November 1933) is a Russian geneticist, ethologist, and evolutionist known for developing domesticated foxes from wild foxes, with Dmitry Belyayev as part of the Domesticated red fox experiment in Russia, at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk.
- The experiment, started in 1952, continues to this day covering nearly 60 generations of selecting for "tameness." 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.
- 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.
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