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ArticleEvolution letters2025

Fine-scale spatial variation in fitness, inbreeding, and inbreeding depression in a wild ungulate.

Anna M Hewett, Susan E Johnston, Gregory F Albery, Alison Morris, Sean J Morris, Josephine M Pemberton

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Article in Evolution letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  4. Inbreeding reduces fitness in spatially structured populations of a threatened rattlesnake.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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6 authors.

Anna M HewettInstitute of Ecology and Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9335-5649
Susan E JohnstonInstitute of Ecology and Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5623-8902
Gregory F AlberySchool of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6260-2662
Alison MorrisInstitute of Ecology and Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Sean J MorrisInstitute of Ecology and Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Josephine M PembertonInstitute of Ecology and Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0075-1504

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Environmental stress can exacerbate inbreeding depression by amplifying differences between inbred and outbred individuals. In wild populations, where the environment is often unpredictable and stress can be highly detrimental, the interplay between inbreeding depression and environmental variation is potentially important. Here, we investigate variation in inbreeding level, fitness and strength of inbreeding depression across a fine-scale geographic area (~12 km

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inbreedinginbreeding depressioninbreeding depression-by-environment interactionspatial variation

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PMID40191412
PMCPMC11968190

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