Inbreeding depression, reduction in performance of quantitative traits, including reproduction and survival, caused by inbreeding, is a well-known phenomenon observed in almost all experimental, ...

A study being called the most comprehensive genetic analysis of North American Thoroughbreds found no genetic ties related to health concerns or durability and detected a slight rise in inbreeding ...

Sharing the name of a legendary dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's classic fantasy novel "The Hobbit," a Neanderthal now known as Thorin wandered the Earth up to 42,000 years ago. Now a new study in the ...

Marianne Dehasque receives funding from the Carl Tryggers Foundation. Love Dalén receives funding from the Swedish Research Council, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, and the European Research ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Puberty comes with its challenges for Homo sapiens, but for female chimpanzees it presents a particular quandary: how to avoid mating with your ...

This repository contains the scripts and files necessary to run the analysis done in the manuscript "Little evidence of inbreeding depression for birth mass, survival and growth in Antarctic fur seal ...

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 ...

Add a description, image, and links to the inbreeding-depression topic page so that developers can more easily learn about it.

We all understand the concept of inbreeding in human terms – where people who are too genetically similar reproduce, resulting in offspring with deformities. With each inbred generation, the gene pool ...

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Inbreeding refers to genomic corruption ...