Nature

Inbreeding depression and purging in a haplodiploid: gender-related effects

Compared with diploid species, haplodiploids suffer less inbreeding depression because male haploidy imposes purifying selection on recessive deleterious alleles. However, alleles of genes only ...
Nature

An investigation of inbreeding depression and purging in captive pedigreed populations

We use regression models to investigate the effects of inbreeding in 119 zoo populations, encompassing 88 species of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians. Meta-analyses show that inbreeding ...
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The genetic basis and process of inbreeding depression in an elite hybrid rice

This study was reported by Qifa Zhang and Yidan Ouyang’ group from the National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China. Inbreeding depression is ...
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The Significance of Genetic Erosion in the Process of Extinction. IV. Inbreeding Load and Heterosis in Relation to Population Size in the Mint Salvia pratensis

If, because of genetic erosion, the level of homozygosity in small populations is high, additional selfing will result in small reductions of fitness. In addition, in small populations with a long ...
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The Significance of Genetic Erosion in the Process of Extinction. IV. Inbreeding Depression and Heterosis Effects Caused by Selfing and Outcrossing in Scabiosa columbaria

The effects of self-fertilization, within-population crosses (WPC) and between-population crosses (BPC) on progeny fitness were investigated in the greenhouse for Scabiosa columbaria populations of ...