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 ...

The magnitude of inbreeding depression in small populations may depend on the effectiveness with which natural selection purges deleterious recessive alleles from populations during inbreeding. The ...

Premise of the study: Invasive species are nonnative species that enter novel environments, establish sustained populations, and can negatively impact native species. Here we assess a potential ...

Since 1970, wildlife populations globally have plummeted by about 73%. One driver is habitat fragmentation that isolates small populations, leading to inbreeding and fewer healthy offspring.

Humans generally leave more descendants if they marry someone who is not too closely related. So highly inbred royal families experience many genetic disorders like hemophilia. Inbreeding is connected ...