This morning you may see that we have extended the computations of the Coefficient of Inbreeding and Coefficient of Relatedness to 10 generations. These coefficients were previously calculated over 8 ...

A 2011 study showing an increase in inbreeding in the Thoroughbred during a 45-year period from 1961-2006 also concluded the majority of the increase occurred during the last 10 years of the study ...

Increasing levels of inbreeding is a threat against the viability of the Scandinavian wolf population. A study just coming out in the new journal PLoS ONE now demonstrates that inbreeding is not ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In mixed-mating plant populations, one can estimate the relative fitness of selfed progeny w by measuring the inbreeding coefficient F and ...

Inbreeding depression, the decline in fitness of inbred individuals compared to outbred ones, is increasingly of interest to conservation biologists, as inbreeding effects can be important in wild ...

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Evolution, Vol. 65, No. 7 (JULY 2011), pp. 2038-2049 (12 pages) Genome duplication resulting in polyploidy can have significant consequences for the evolution of mating systems. Most theory predicts ...

Increasing levels of inbreeding is a threat against the viabi lity of the Scandinavian wolf population. A study just coming out in the new journal PLoS ONE now demonstrates that inbreeding is not ...