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On the expected relationship between inbreeding, fitness, and extinction

We assessed the expected relationship between the level and the cost of inbreeding, measured either in terms of fitness, inbreeding depression or probability of extinction. First, we show that the assumption of frequent, slightly deleterious mutations do agree with observations and experiments, on t...

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Autores principales: Theodorou, Konstantinos, Couvet, Denis
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2689291/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16790228
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1297-9686-38-4-371