Purebred dogs might look flawless on the outside, but their beauty often hides a disturbing genetic truth. For generations, breeders have prioritized traits like coat color and snub noses over genetic ...

Compared with diploid species, haplodiploids suffer less inbreeding depression because male haploidy imposes purifying selection on recessive deleterious alleles. However, alleles of genes only ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 91, No. 8 (Aug., 2004), pp. 1183-1189 (7 pages) Significantly different maternal line responses to inbreeding provide a mechanism for the invasion of a selfing variant ...

Pure-bred dogs have been regarded as superior to crossbreeds or what some people refer to as mutts. However, we now ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The effects of inbreeding on animals derived from a wild caught population of Mus musculus were examined for four traits: nest-building, ...

In the study, Trinkaus notes that the “patterns and incidence of developmental abnormalities and anomalies” could provide insight into Pleistocene consanguinity. In other words, it’s likely that ...

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 ...

A new study on climate change’s effects on polar bears was published Wednesday in the Royal Society Journals. The study found a 10-percent decrease in the genetic diversity of polar bears in the ...

Neanderthals went extinct around 40,000 years ago – about the same time that modern humans migrated out of Africa. This has led researchers to believe that modern humans won the competition for ...

We may be overestimating the role our ancestors played in the demise of the Neanderthals, say researchers writing in Plos One. Instead, inbreeding and a "stroke of bad luck" could be to blame.