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The Significance of Genetic Erosion in the Process of Extinction. IV. Inbreeding Load and Heterosis in Relation to Population Size in the Mint Salvia pratensis

If, because of genetic erosion, the level of homozygosity in small populations is high, additional selfing will result in small reductions of fitness. In addition, in small populations with a long ...
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The genetic basis and process of inbreeding depression in an elite hybrid rice

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 ...
Nature

Inbreeding depression and purging in a haplodiploid: gender-related effects

Compared with diploid species, haplodiploids suffer less inbreeding depression because male haploidy imposes purifying selection on recessive deleterious alleles. However, alleles of genes only ...
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The Significance of Genetic Erosion in the Process of Extinction. IV. Inbreeding Depression and Heterosis Effects Caused by Selfing and Outcrossing in Scabiosa columbaria

The effects of self-fertilization, within-population crosses (WPC) and between-population crosses (BPC) on progeny fitness were investigated in the greenhouse for Scabiosa columbaria populations of ...
Nature

Concerning epigenetics and inbreeding

You have full access to this article via your institution. Interestingly, a mechanism akin to this latter process could explain the surge in viability observed by Nebert et al. 13 during sibling ...