Many natural populations experience inbreeding and genetic drift as a consequence of nonrandom mating or low population size. Furthermore, they face environmental challenges that may interact ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 91, No. 8 (Aug., 2004), pp. 1183-1189 (7 pages) Significantly different maternal line responses to inbreeding provide a mechanism for the invasion of a selfing variant ...

Inbreeding depression is a key factor influencing mating system evolution in plants, but current understanding of its relationship with selfing rate is limited by a sampling bias with few estimates ...

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 ...

Researchers have taken a first look at the broad genetic changes that accompany reproductive declines in inbred populations. Although scientists have known for more than a century that small ...

New research shows that inbreeding depression, the result of breeding closely-related individuals, reduces litter sizes in purebred golden retrievers. Data from the Morris Animal Foundation Golden ...

Viral Epizootic reveals inbreeding depression in a habitually inbreeding mammal: Inbreeding is typically detrimental to fitness. However, some animal populations are reported to inbreed without ...

Scientists are trying to revolutionize potatoes and, in the process, cure the tubers’ depression, the result of generations of inbreeding. Potato depression is obviously nothing like human depression, ...

Two days ago, the last male northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) died. His passing leaves two surviving members of his subspecies: both females who are unable to bear calves. Even though ...

Declines in reproductive success due to inbreeding are probably due to a few key genes that influence other genes, said an animal biology professor. Researchers have taken a first look at the broad ...