Journal of Ecology, Vol. 107, No. 2, Special Feature: Ecological Succession in a Changing World (March 2019), pp. 923-936 (14 pages) 1. Inbreeding and herbivory can interactively reduce the ...

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 ...

Purebred dogs might look flawless on the outside, but their beauty often hides a disturbing genetic truth. For generations, breeders have prioritized traits like coat color and snub noses over genetic ...

Discover how inbreeding depression affects human height, revealing risks for offspring of first cousin marriages and genetic traits. Although this exploratory work focuses on height alone, the ...

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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 ...