The magnitude of inbreeding depression in small populations may depend on the effectiveness with which natural selection purges deleterious recessive alleles from populations during inbreeding. The ef...
Epidemiologic patterns of inbreeding in the Old Order Amish were investigated using a unique genealogic registry of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Amish that contains information on 8,163 marriages, ...
A pedigree file of 157,015 male and female Jersey cattle (born after 1955) from the Canadian herdbooks was investigated for the occurrence of inbreeding. A large proportion of Jersey bulls and cows we...
Inbreeding is typically detrimental to fitness. However, some animal populations are reported to inbreed without incurring inbreeding depression, ostensibly due to past "purging" of deleterious allele...
The influence of natural selection on the magnitude of inbreeding depression is an important issue in conservation biology and the study of evolution. It is generally expected that the magnitude of in...
An important issue in conservation biology and the study of evolution is the extent to which inbreeding depression can be reduced or reversed by natural selection. If the deleterious recessive alleles...