Inbreeding depression, the reduction of fitness caused by inbreeding, is a nearly universal
phenomenon that depends on past mutation, selection, and genetic drift. Recent estimates …

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, the deterioration in mean trait value in progeny of related parents, is
a fundamental quantity in genetics, evolutionary biology, animal and plant breeding, and …

Simple Summary Inbreeding, which is the mating of related animals, is a general
phenomenon in closed populations. Because it is often associated with a decrease in …

Inbreeding depression, the decline in fitness of inbred individuals, is a ubiquitous
phenomenon of great relevance in evolutionary biology and in the fields of animal and plant …

To test for the presence of purging in populations, the classical pedigree-based inbreeding
coefficient (F) can be decomposed into Kalinowski's ancestral (FANC) and new (FNEW) …

The expected change in fitness under inbreeding due to deleterious recessive alleles
depends on the amount of inbreeding load harbored by a population, that is, the load of …

The fitness consequences of inbreeding and the individual behaviors that prevent its
detrimental effects can be challenging to document in wild populations. Here, we use field …

Inbreeding threatens the survival of small populations by producing inbreeding depression,
but also exposes recessive deleterious effects in homozygosis allowing for genetic purging …

Inbreeding depression and genetic purging are important processes shaping the
survivability and evolution of small populations. However, detecting purging is challenging …