ArticleNature communications2012
Inbreeding causes early death in a passerine bird.
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- It is hard to be small: Inbreeding depression on male breeding success depends on body size in a threatened songbird.Heredity · 2026Article
- Genome-Wide Homozygosity Predicts Inbreeding Depression in the Hihi/Stitchbird (Evolutionary applications · 2026Article
- Male inbreeding reduces fertility, but does not accelerateBiology letters · 2025Article
- Recently Delisted Songbird Harbors Extensive Genomic Evidence of Inbreeding, Potentially Complicating Future Recovery.Evolutionary applications · 2024Article
- Inbreeding accelerates reproductive senescence, but not survival senescence, in a precocial bird.The Journal of animal ecology · 2024Article
- Demographic drivers of reproductive failure in a threatened bird: Insights from a decade of data.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Limited effects of inbreeding on breeding coloration.The Journal of heredity · 2023Article
- Effect of MHC and inbreeding on disassortative reproduction: A data revisit, extension and inclusion of fertilization in sand lizards.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Genetic load: genomic estimates and applications in non-model animals.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2022Review
- Fetal blockade of nicotinic acetylcholine transmission causes autism-like impairment of biological motion preference in the neonatal chick.Cerebral cortex communications · 2022Article
- Multiple life-stage inbreeding depression impacts demography and extinction risk in an extinct-in-the-wild species.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Cost, risk, and avoidance of inbreeding in a cooperatively breeding bird.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
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- The Genetic Status of the Critically Endangered Hainan Gibbon (Frontiers in genetics · 2020Article
- Increased prenatal maternal investment reduces inbreeding depression in offspring.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
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- Quantifying inbreeding avoidance through extra-pair reproduction.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2015Article
- Causes of hatching failure in endangered birds.Biology letters · 2012Article
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Abstract
Inbreeding typically reduces fitness. Related partners may fail to reproduce and any inbred offspring may die early or fail to reproduce themselves. Here we show that inbreeding causes early death in the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata, and among inbred individuals of the same inbreeding coefficient (F), those that die early are more homozygous (estimated from single nucleotide polymorphisms) than those that survive to adulthood. Therefore, we identify two ways by which inbreeding depression may be underestimated in studies of inbreeding. First, a failure to study early life history could mean that the magnitude of inbreeding depression is routinely underestimated. Second, the observation that the most homozygous individuals of the same pedigree F were the least likely to survive to sexual maturity provides evidence that realized inbreeding, estimated from a high density of markers spread throughout the genome, explains variation in survival above and beyond what pedigree-based measures of inbreeding can explain.
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