Inbreeding depression has been widely documented for livestock and other animal and
plant populations. Inbreeding is generally expected to have a stronger unfavorable effect on …

Fertility is a critically important factor in cattle production because it directly relates to the
ability to produce the offspring necessary to offset costs in production systems. Female …

Background Inbreeding decreases animal performance (inbreeding depression), but not all
inbreeding is expected to be equally harmful. Recent inbreeding is expected to be more …

Inbreeding depression is ubiquitous, but we still know little about its genetic architecture and
precise effects in wild populations. Here, we combine long-term life-history data with 417 K …

Background The availability of genome-wide marker data allows estimation of inbreeding
coefficients (F, the probability of identity-by-descent, IBD) and, in turn, estimation of the rate …

Background Phenotypic performances of livestock animals decline with increasing levels of
inbreeding, however, the noticeable decline known as inbreeding depression, may not be …

Human concern about the status of genetic diversity in livestock breeds and their
conservation has increased, as intense selection and reduced population sizes in many …

The inbreeding coefficient (F) of individuals can be estimated from molecular marker data,
such as SNPs, using measures of homozygosity of individual markers or runs of …

The estimation of the inbreeding coefficient (F) is essential for the study of inbreeding
depression (ID) or for the management of populations under conservation. Several methods …

Small effective population sizes and active inbreeding can lead to inbreeding depression
due to deleterious recessive mutations exposed in the homozygous state. The …