Animals are usually expected to avoid mating with relatives (kin avoidance) as incestuous
mating can lead to the expression of inbreeding depression. Yet, theoretical models predict …

Individuals are expected to avoid mating with relatives as inbreeding can reduce offspring
fitness, a phenomenon known as inbreeding depression. This has led to the widespread …

Animal ecologists commonly assume that the reduced fitness that often afflicts inbred
offspring will inevitably cause selection for inbreeding avoidance. Although early empirical …

Why do some animals mate with one partner rather than many? Here, I investigate factors
related to (i) spatial constraints (habitat limitation, mate availability),(ii) time constraints …

As breeding between relatives often results in inbreeding depression, inbreeding avoidance
is widespread in the animal kingdom. However, inbreeding avoidance may entail fitness …

Inbreeding often imposes net fitness costs, 1–5 leading to the expectation that animals will
engage in inbreeding avoidance when the costs of doing so are not prohibitive. 4–9 …

Kin recognition plays a key role in inbreeding avoidance for taxa from all major animal
groups; however, perplexingly, a number of species, for which the risks and costs of …

Avoidance of incestuous matings is widely reported across many animal taxa, and the
adaptive value of such behavior is explained through inbreeding depression. However, an …

Individuals are generally predicted to avoid inbreeding because of detrimental fitness
effects. However, several recent studies have shown that limited inbreeding is tolerated by …

The Crnokrak and Roff (1999) paper was a seminal contribution to conservation genetics as
it resolved the controversial issue of whether inbreeding had deleterious impacts on life …