Inbreeding avoidance, tolerance, or preference in animals?

M Szulkin, KV Stopher, JM Pemberton… - Trends in ecology & …, 2013 - cell.com
Animal ecologists commonly assume that the reduced fitness that often afflicts inbred
offspring will inevitably cause selection for inbreeding avoidance. Although early empirical …

[图书][B] 40 Years of Evolution: Darwin's Finches on Daphne Major Island, New Edition

PR Grant, BR Grant - 2024 - degruyter.com
40 Years of Evolution is a landmark study of the finches first made famous by Charles
Darwin, one that documents as never before the evolution of species through natural …

Variation in reproductive success across captive populations: methodological differences, potential biases and opportunities

SC Griffith, OL Crino, SC Andrew, FY Nomano… - Ethology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Our understanding of fundamental organismal biology has been disproportionately
influenced by studies of a relatively small number of 'model'species extensively studied in …

The genomic mosaicism of hybrid speciation

TO Elgvin, CN Trier, OK Tørresen, IJ Hagen, S Lien… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Hybridization is widespread in nature and, in some instances, can result in the formation of a
new hybrid species. We investigate the genetic foundation of this poorly understood process …

Genomic signatures of inbreeding depression for a threatened Aotearoa New Zealand passerine

L Duntsch, A Whibley, P de Villemereuil… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
For small and isolated populations, the increased chance of mating between related
individuals can result in a substantial reduction in individual and population fitness. Despite …

Consistent scaling of inbreeding depression in space and time in a house sparrow metapopulation

AK Niskanen, AM Billing, H Holand… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Inbreeding may increase the extinction risk of small populations. Yet, studies using modern
genomic tools to investigate inbreeding depression in nature have been limited to single …

Longitudinal telomere dynamics within natural lifespans of a wild bird

ML Pepke, T Kvalnes, J Wright, YG Araya-Ajoy… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Telomeres, the nucleotide sequences that protect the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes,
shorten with each cell division and telomere loss may be influenced by environmental …

Inferences of genetic architecture of bill morphology in house sparrow using a high‐density SNP array point to a polygenic basis

SL Lundregan, IJ Hagen, J Gohli… - Molecular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the genetic architecture of quantitative traits can provide insights into the
mechanisms driving phenotypic evolution. Bill morphology is an ecologically important and …

Effects of population characteristics and structure on estimates of effective population size in a house sparrow metapopulation

HT Baalsrud, BE Sæther, IJ Hagen, AM Myhre… - Molecular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Effective population size (Ne) is a key parameter to understand evolutionary processes and
the viability of endangered populations as it determines the rate of genetic drift and …

Genetic variation and structure of house sparrow populations: is there an island effect?

H Jensen, R Moe, IJ Hagen, AM Holand… - Molecular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Population genetic structure and intrapopulation levels of genetic variation have important
implications for population dynamics and evolutionary processes. Habitat fragmentation is …