Inbreeding depression is the reduced biological fitness that has the potential to result from inbreeding (the breeding of related individuals). The loss...

temporarily decreased biological fitness of a population (called inbreeding depression), which is its ability to survive and reproduce. An individual who...

habitat. Inbreeding can result in inbreeding depression, which is the reduction of fitness of a given population due to inbreeding. Inbreeding depression occurs...

reproduction, mating with a close relative (inbreeding) often leads to inbreeding depression. Inbreeding depression is considered to be largely due to expression...

the inbreeding coefficient increased, litter size decreased and the percentage of stillborn puppies increased, thus indicating inbreeding depression. Inbreeding...

between close relatives (e.g., between half- and full-siblings). Inbreeding depression is considered to be due mainly to the expression of homozygous deleterious...

magnify the deleterious effects of inbreeding. Inbreeding ordinarily has negative fitness consequences (inbreeding depression), and as a result species have...

the inbreeding coefficient increased, litter size decreased and the percentage of stillborn puppies increased, thus indicating inbreeding depression. Dogs...

deleterious alleles and the decline of mean fitness caused by inbreeding (the inbreeding depression for fitness). The term "purge" is sometimes used for selection...

than fish with medium inbreeding, and furthermore had a higher specific growth rate. A significant effect of inbreeding depression on juvenile survival...

of inbreeding depression measured as seedling survival . However, when the seedlings were subject to draught stress conditions, inbreeding depression was...

these exaggerated sexual ornaments and behaviours. Inbreeding causes early death (inbreeding depression) in the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata. Embryo survival...

Loblolly pine, like most gymnosperms, exhibits high levels of inbreeding depression, especially in the embryonic stage. The loblolly pine harbors an...

reduced. This is a form of outbreeding depression, the effects of which are similar to inbreeding depression. Since the early 1900s, two competing genetic...

Inbreeding ordinarily has negative fitness consequences (inbreeding depression), and as a result species have evolved mechanisms to avoid inbreeding....

concept is in contrast to inbreeding depression, although the two effects can occur simultaneously. Outbreeding depression is a risk that sometimes limits...

gynodioecy, since neither hermaphrodites nor females have to deal with inbreeding depression. Two scenarios have been proposed to explain the evolutionary dynamics...

avoidance of inbreeding. When mating does occur between meerkat relatives, it often results in inbreeding depression. Inbreeding depression was evident...

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mate, progeny may exhibit the detrimental effects of inbreeding depression. Inbreeding depression is predominantly caused by the homozygous expression...

indicated the occurrence of inbreeding depression in male plants under natural conditions. In female plants, inbreeding depression significantly affects vegetative...

K, Bernasconi G (2009). "Evidence for inbreeding depression and post-pollination selection against inbreeding in the dioecious plant Silene latifolia"...

an investigative documentary carried out by the BBC found significant inbreeding between pedigree dogs, with a study by Imperial College, London, showing...

decline in progeny performance usually referred to as inbreeding depression. Inbreeding depression has been found for lamb birthweight, average daily weight...

inbreeding becomes disadvantageous because it allows expression of the previously masked deleterious recessive mutations, i.e. inbreeding depression....

Unlike inbreeding depression, outbreeding depression emphasizes interactions between loci rather than within them. Inbreeding and outbreeding depression can...

reproductive success of male progeny. Other traits that displayed inbreeding depression were offspring viability and maturation time of both males and females...

involve inbreeding, the number of weaned juveniles in litters is significantly fewer than that from noninbred litters, due to inbreeding depression. Brandt's...

ordinarily regarded as adaptive since it decreases the likelihood of inbreeding depression in progeny that can be caused by the expression of deleterious recessive...

fitness of a population known as inbreeding depression, a major objective in clinical studies. While the risks of inbreeding are well-known, informing minority...