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    Inbreeding is the production of offspring from the mating or breeding of individuals or organisms that are closely related genetically. By analogy, the...
    62 KB (7,253 words) - 02:45, 16 December 2024
  • Inbreeding depression is the reduced biological fitness that has the potential to result from inbreeding (the breeding of related individuals). The loss...
    24 KB (2,743 words) - 17:12, 4 November 2024
  • Intellectual inbreeding or academic inbreeding is the practice in academia of a university hiring its own graduates to be professors. It is generally...
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  • Inbreeding avoidance, or the inbreeding avoidance hypothesis, is a concept in evolutionary biology that refers to the prevention of the deleterious effects...
    32 KB (3,781 words) - 05:21, 16 December 2024
  • The coefficient of inbreeding (COI) is a number measuring how inbred an individual is. Specifically, it is the probability that two alleles at any locus...
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  • of the coefficient of inbreeding of 1921. The measure is most commonly used in genetics and genealogy. A coefficient of inbreeding can be calculated for...
    18 KB (1,631 words) - 05:19, 22 December 2024
  • Inbreeding in fish is the mating of closely related individuals, leading to an increase in homozygosity. Repeated inbreeding generally leads to morphological...
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  • pressure of natural selection against deleterious alleles prompted by inbreeding. Purging occurs because deleterious alleles tend to be recessive, which...
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    tiger pairs in which each possesses a single copy of the unique mutation. Inbreeding promotes recessive traits and has been used as a strategy to produce white...
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    previous levels of inbreeding: the change in inbreeding (δft). Notice, that this change in inbreeding (δft) is equal to the de novo inbreeding (Δf) only for...
    158 KB (21,655 words) - 01:43, 23 September 2024
  • female-biased dispersal reduces inbreeding. Grey wolves and Arctic foxes also exhibit inbreeding avoidance. Inbreeding is ordinarily avoided because it...
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  • species which are nearly identical to each other in genotype due to long inbreeding. A strain is inbred when it has undergone at least 20 generations of brother...
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    bloodline Inbreeding – Reproduction by closely related organisms Inbreeding avoidance – Evolutionary biology concept of prevention of negative inbreeding effects...
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  • preference for sexual partners with whom one is unlikely to share genes, since inbreeding may have detrimental outcomes. The most widely held hypothesis proposes...
    33 KB (4,439 words) - 12:50, 18 December 2024
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    present these exaggerated sexual ornaments and behaviours. Inbreeding causes early death (inbreeding depression) in the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata. Embryo...
    236 KB (23,629 words) - 12:43, 25 December 2024
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    magnify the deleterious effects of inbreeding. Inbreeding ordinarily has negative fitness consequences (inbreeding depression), and as a result species...
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  • Inbreeding the Anthropophagi is the second full-length album by the American death metal band Deeds of Flesh. It was originally released in 1998 on CD...
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    early modern human populations, natural catastrophes, climate change and inbreeding depression. It is likely that multiple factors caused the demise of an...
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    mating with a close relative during sexual reproduction generally leads to inbreeding depression within a population due to the increased prevalence of harmful...
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  • bottleneck, genetic hitchhiking, meiotic drive, mutation, gene flow, inbreeding, natural selection, or the Wahlund effect, but it was originally designed...
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