Before revision: Furthermore, the recently proposed parasite-mediated domestication hypothesis suggests that parasites (specifically endoparasites : helminths and protozoa ) could play an important mediating role in the process of domestication could have mediated the domestication of mammals.
After revision: The 2023 parasite-mediated domestication hypothesis suggests that endoparasites such as helminths and protozoa could have mediated the domestication of mammals.