The ecology of inbreeding depression
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The study shows that the inbreeding depression (ID) is the reduction of fitness due to consanguineous mating and it impacts on diverse topics including the role of mutations and the evolution of adaptive traits, such as mating system, dispersal and sociality. The characteristics of deleterious mutations as well as selective environment play a joint role in shaping the genetic architecture of ID and the assessment of their role is allowed by coupling demography and population genetics.
Publication Name: Heredity
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0018-067X
Year: 2006
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The genetic analysis of family structured inbreeding depression studies
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Study is presented to demonstrate whether the fitness of a randomly extracted, fully inbred genotype will exceed the mean of outbred individuals. It is implied that alleles fix randomly within a lineage over successive generations of selfing and that the lineage is founded by a random outbred genotype.
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Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0018-067X
Year: 2006
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Rapid evolutionary change in a sexual signal: genetic control of the mutation 'flatwing' that renders male field crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus) mute
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The article explains the genetics and the mutation 'flatwing' control of the sexual signal of Polynesian male field crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus) mute. The analysis shows that a single sex-linked locus often leads to the song-suppressing mutation in such species.
Publication Name: Heredity
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0018-067X
Year: 2008
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