Inbreeding is the production of offspring from the mating or breeding of individuals or organisms that are closely related genetically. By analogy, the...

Inbreeding depression is the reduced biological fitness that has the potential to result from inbreeding (the breeding of related individuals). The loss...

reproduction, mating with a close relative (inbreeding) often leads to inbreeding depression. Inbreeding depression is considered to be largely due to...

Intellectual inbreeding or academic inbreeding is the practice in academia of a university hiring its own graduates to be professors. It is generally...

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...

Inbreeding avoidance, or the inbreeding avoidance hypothesis, is a concept in evolutionary biology that refers to the prevention of the deleterious effects...

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...

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...

pressure of natural selection against deleterious alleles prompted by inbreeding. Purging occurs because deleterious alleles tend to be recessive, which...

Inbreeding in fish is the mating of closely related individuals, leading to an increase in homozygosity. Repeated inbreeding generally leads to morphological...

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...

female-biased dispersal reduces inbreeding. Grey wolves and Arctic foxes also exhibit inbreeding avoidance. Inbreeding is ordinarily avoided because it...

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...

biological costs of inbreeding. This fact likely explains why inbreeding between close relatives, such as siblings, is less common than inbreeding between cousins...

bloodline Inbreeding – Reproduction by closely related organisms Inbreeding avoidance – Evolutionary biology concept of prevention of negative inbreeding effects...

present these exaggerated sexual ornaments and behaviours. Inbreeding causes early death (inbreeding depression) in the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata. Embryo...

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...

preference for sexual partners with whom one is unlikely to share genes, since inbreeding may have detrimental outcomes. The most widely held hypothesis proposes...

magnify the deleterious effects of inbreeding. Inbreeding ordinarily has negative fitness consequences (inbreeding depression), and as a result species...

population would experience the same rate of genetic drift or increase in inbreeding as in the real population. Idealised populations are based on unrealistic...

mating with a close relative during sexual reproduction generally leads to inbreeding depression within a population due to the increased prevalence of harmful...

recognize kin. Kin recognition thus allows avoidance of inbreeding and consequent inbreeding depression. In the United Kingdom, common toads often climb...

and a crossbite. In both humans and animals, it can be the result of inbreeding. In brachycephalic or flat-faced dogs, like shih tzus and boxers, it can...

masking of deleterious recessive alleles in progeny. By contrast, close inbreeding, including self-fertilization in plants and automictic parthenogenesis...

later generations are red; mated females survive the winter in diapause. Inbreeding is detrimental for fitness in T. urticae. Inbred progeny mature more slowly...

of inbreeding, which can result in inbreeding depression, in which a population made up of genetically similar individuals loses fitness. Inbreeding in...

Inbreeding ordinarily has negative fitness consequences (inbreeding depression), and as a result species have evolved mechanisms to avoid inbreeding....

significant correlation with the degree of inbreeding. A correlation between maxillary deficiency and degree of inbreeding was also present but was not statistically...

specific desired traits in offspring. Line breeding is differentiated from inbreeding by excluding pairings between parents and offspring, and between full...

in more genetically diverse offspring and a reduction of inbreeding depression. Inbreeding depression increases genetic incompatibilities, levels of...