Inbreeding causes early death in a passerine bird
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Telomere length reveals cumulative individual and transgenerational inbreeding effects in a passerine bird
Inbreeding results in more homozygous offspring that should suffer reduced fitness, but it can be difficult to quantify these costs for several reasons. First, inbreeding depression may vary with ecological or physiological stress and only be detectable over long time periods. Second, parental homozygosity may indirectly affect offspring fitness, thus confounding analyses that consider offsprin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Communications
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1870