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 ...

Compared with diploid species, haplodiploids suffer less inbreeding depression because male haploidy imposes purifying selection on recessive deleterious alleles. However, alleles of genes only ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The effects of inbreeding on animals derived from a wild caught population of Mus musculus were examined for four traits: nest-building, ...

1 Male steriles (MS) must have a fitness advantage relative to hermaphrodites (H) if they are to be maintained in gynodioecious species. We report experiments in which we disentangle the relative ...

Pieces of DNA that predict lifespan are shorter in birds that are inbred, according to new research. The findings mean that inbreeding could be linked to a shorter lifespan. The team also found ...

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 ...

Researchers have been exploring the genetic origins of the Scandinavian grey wolf population, which was founded by only three immigrating wolves. The scientists show that, after five generations of ...

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Neanderthals went extinct around 40,000 years ago – about the same time that modern humans migrated out of Africa. This has led researchers to believe that modern humans won the competition for ...