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The Environmental Dependence of Inbreeding Depression in a Wild Bird Population

BACKGROUND: Inbreeding depression occurs when the offspring produced as a result of matings between relatives show reduced fitness, and is generally understood as a consequence of the elevated expression of deleterious recessive alleles. How inbreeding depression varies across environments is of imp...

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Autores principales: Szulkin, Marta, Sheldon, Ben C.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2001187/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17925875
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001027