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Meaning of "inbreeding depression"

Inbreeding depression is a term used in genetics and biology to describe the reduced fitness or health of offspring resulting from breeding between closely related individuals. It refers to the negative consequences of increased genetic similarity within a population
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  • The reduced biological fitness in a given population as a result of inbreeding.

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An example of inbreeding depression is shown to the right.
This allows avoidance of immediate inbreeding depression.
Inbreeding depression occurs via one of two mechanisms.
Subjecting a population to isolation leads to inbreeding depression.
Inbreeding depression is often the result of a population bottleneck.
One of these risks is inbreeding depression.
Inbreeding depression has not been observed in the breed.
This is likely due to inbreeding depression.
And inbreeding depression can consist of cubs that are smaller.
A more likely explanation is embryo abortion due to inbreeding depression.
Inbreeding depression is mainly expressed during the germination stage.
One such process is inbreeding avoidance avoiding inbreeding depression.
Inbreeding depression is absent in open bars and present in hatched bars.
These types of malformations are caused by inbreeding depression or genetic load.
Inbreeding depression is the loss of fitness due to loss of genetic diversity.

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There was evidence of strong inbreeding depression expressed during seed development.
Inbreeding depression is thought to be largely because of expression of deleterious recessive mutations.
Introducing alleles from a different population can reverse inbreeding depression.
This would lead to inbreeding depression and loss of genetic variability.
Introducing new genes from a different population can reverse inbreeding depression.
Of inbreeding depression and inbreeding depression can consist of cubs that are smaller.
Recent progress in the genetic analysis of inbreeding depression in plants is reviewed.
Inbreeding depression mostly arises due to the expression of deleterious recessive alleles.
This example shows that purging can be very efficient preventing inbreeding depression.
Inbreeding depression is likely due to the small population size and fragmented range.
Irregularities in meiotic behavior could be partially responsible for the inbreeding depression in fertility observed.
The explanation for inbreeding depression lies in the evolutionary history of the population.
Aquaculture should more frequently use genetically improved species not suffering from inbreeding depression.
There is little evidence of inbreeding depression even at the site with the smallest population.
And here 's where you get a real risk of inbreeding depression.
Inbreeding depression may negatively affect demography and thus threaten the conservation of an endangered species.
Why would there be inbreeding depression otherwise?
This inbreeding depression causes a reduction in species fitness and therefore contributes to eventual population extinction.
The answer is simple - inbreeding depression.
Inbreeding depression is also a threat to Asiatic lion.
Therefore, we have not included inbreeding depression models in those analyses.
Of course, it also causes some reduction in fitness, which is known as inbreeding depression.
High levels of inbreeding depression maintain high genetic diversity in the Pyrenees.
Inter-population crosses can enable species to recover from such inbreeding depression.
Where rates of selfing and inbreeding depression varied, heritability was overestimated.
The species is highly self-sterile, most probably as a result of early inbreeding depression.
Over time, inbreeding depression may lead to the evolution of inbreeding avoidance behaviour.
More surprisingly, we found some evidence of inbreeding depression at a small geographic scale.
Inbreeding depression gives us still another way to test if genes explain Black-White differences.
Quinata pasture trees due to inbreeding depression from the increased selfing, whereas for.
Inbreeding depression was found for the yield of seedlings from sib-crosses within individual diallels.
Example taxa not subject to significant inbreeding depression despite extremely low effective population sizes,.
Thus post-pollination selection may occur in order to promote allogamy and avoid inbreeding depression.
In addition, the inclusion of inbreeding depression is also partly responsible for this annual variability.
With persistent inbreeding, there is evidence that shows that inbreeding depression becomes less severe.

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