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Inbreeding depression by environment interactions in a free-living mammal population.
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- Demography and environment modulate the effects of genetic diversity on extinction risk in a butterfly metapopulation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Rapid population growth and high management costs have created a narrow window for control of introduced hippos in Colombia.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The impact of SNP density on quantitative genetic analyses of body size traits in a wild population of Soay sheep.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
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- Analysis of ancestry heterozygosity suggests that hybrid incompatibilities in threespine stickleback are environment dependent.PLoS biology · 2022Article
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- Genomic partitioning of inbreeding depression in humans.American journal of human genetics · 2021Article
- Inbreeding depression for kit survival at birth in a rabbit population under long-term selection.Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE · 2020Article
- Consistent scaling of inbreeding depression in space and time in a house sparrow metapopulation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Extreme inbreeding in a European ancestry sample from the contemporary UK population.Nature communications · 2019Observational
- Responses of a legume to inbreeding and the intensity of novel and familiar stresses.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Estimating selection on the act of inbreeding in a population with strong inbreeding depression.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2018Article
- Inbreeding, inbreeding depression, and infidelity in a cooperatively breeding bird.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2018Article
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Abstract
Experimental studies often find that inbreeding depression is more severe in harsh environments, but the few studies of in situ wild populations available to date rarely find strong support for this effect. We investigated evidence for inbreeding depression by environment interactions in nine traits in the individually monitored Soay sheep population of St Kilda, using genomic inbreeding coefficients based on 37 037 single-nucleotide polymorphism loci, and population density as an axis of environmental variation. All traits showed variation with population density and all traits showed some evidence for depression because of either an individual's own inbreeding or maternal inbreeding. However, only six traits showed evidence for an interaction in the expected direction, and only two interactions were statistically significant. We identify three possible reasons why wild population studies may generally fail to find strong support for interactions between inbreeding depression and environmental variation compared with experimental studies. First, for species with biparental inbreeding only, the amount of observed inbreeding in natural populations is generally low compared with that used in experimental studies. Second, it is possible that experimental studies sometimes actually impose higher levels of stress than organisms experience in the wild. Third, some purging of the deleterious recessive alleles that underpin interaction effects may occur in the wild.
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