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, ...

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 ...

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Self-fertilization, where pollen from a plant pollinates the flowers of the same plant and sets seeds, is the extreme case of inbreeding that involves mating among close relatives. One genetic ...

Mitigating reductions in vigor in onion seed production has been a great challenge to breeding programs. Therefore, we compared the effects of inbreeding depression among populations obtained from ...

Inbreeding depression (ID) is the reduction of fitness in offspring of related parents. This phenomenon can be quantified from SNP data through a number of measures of inbreeding. Our study addresses ...

Data deposition: Data and main scripts used in this study have been deposited in Dryad with a 2-year embargo for the data (https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.m0cfxpp10 ...

ABSTRACT: Xanthorrhoea johnsonii is a long lived slow growing perennial understorey species, that produces a large quantity of passively dispersed seed every 3 - 5 years. Reproductive maturity is not ...