Inbreeding depression in red deer calves [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011 Background Understanding the fitness consequences of inbreeding is of major importance for evolutionary and conservation biology. However, there are few studies using pedigree-based estimates of inbreeding or investigating the influence of environment ...
Walling Craig A +5 more
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Inbreeding depression of reproductive traits in Japanese Black cattle using genomic information [PDF]
Animal BioscienceObjective The objective of this study was to evaluate genomic inbreeding in Japanese Black cattle and its effects on reproductive traits. Methods The study analyzed reproductive records and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data from Japanese Black ...
Takayuki Ibi, Souma Kouno
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Evidence of an Absence of Inbreeding Depression in a Wild Population of Weddell Seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) [PDF]
Entropy, 2023 Inbreeding depression can reduce the viability of wild populations. Detecting inbreeding depression in the wild is difficult; developing accurate estimates of inbreeding can be time and labor intensive.
John H. Powell +5 more
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Exploring inbreeding depression in Brazilian Angus cattle population using pedigree and genomic data [PDF]
Frontiers in GeneticsIntroductionInbreeding depression refers to the decline in performance caused by increased levels of inbreeding, which results from mating individuals with common ancestors.
Henrique A. Mulim +3 more
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Detecting inbreeding depression in structured populations. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 AbstractMeasuring inbreeding as well as its consequences on fitness is central for many areas in biology including human genetics and the conservation of endangered species. However, there is no consensus on the most appropriate method, neither for quantification of inbreeding itself nor for the model to estimate its effect on specific traits.
Lavanchy E, Weir BS, Goudet J.
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The evolutionary ecology of inbreeding depression in wild plant populations and its impact on plant mating systems [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceInbreeding depression, the reduced fitness of inbred relative to outbred individuals was described more than two centuries ago, long before the development of population genetics.
Pierre-Olivier Cheptou
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Inbreeding Depression and Purging for Meat Performance Traits in German Sheep Breeds [PDF]
Animals, 2023 This study provides estimates on genetic parameters, inbreeding depression and purging for meat performance measures from 25 German sheep breeds. All German meat, merino sheep breeds and breeds of other breeding directions with a sufficient number of ...
Cathrin Justinski +2 more
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Estimation of Inbreeding Depression From Overdominant Loci Using Molecular Markers [PDF]
Evolutionary ApplicationsInbreeding depression is a highly relevant universal phenomenon in population and conservation genetics since it leads to a decline in the fitness of individuals.
Inés González‐Castellano +2 more
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Inbreeding depression in the wild [PDF]
Heredity, 1999 Despite its practical application in conservation biology and evolutionary theory, the cost of inbreeding in natural populations of plants and animals remains to a large degree unknown. In this review we have gathered estimates of inbreeding depression (delta) from the literature for wild species monitored in the field. We have also corrected estimates
P, Crnokrak, D A, Roff
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Sex-specific inbreeding depression: A meta-analysis. [PDF]
Ecol Lett, 2022 Abstract Inbreeding depression, the reduced fitness of the offspring of related individuals, can affect males and females differently. Although a comprehensive theoretical framework describing the causes of sex‐specific inbreeding depression is lacking, empirical evidence suggests that often one sex tends to be more vulnerable than ...
Vega-Trejo R +3 more
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