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Demographic costs of inbreeding revealed by sex-specific genetic rescue effects
BACKGROUND: Inbreeding can slow population growth and elevate extinction risk. A small number of unrelated immigrants to an inbred population can substantially reduce inbreeding and improve fitness, but little attention has been paid to the sex-specific effects of immigrants on such "genetic re...
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BioMed Central
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2797806/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20003302 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-289 |