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Two classes of deleterious recessive alleles in a natural population of zebrafish, Danio rerio.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Oct 2004
McCune Amy R, Houle David, McMillan Kyle, Annable Rebecca, Kondrashov Alexey S
Abstract excerpt
Natural populations carry deleterious recessive alleles which cause inbreeding depression. We compared mortality and growth of inbred and outbred zebrafish, Danio rerio, between 6 and 48 days of age. Grandparents of the studied fish were caught in the wild. Inbred fish were generated by brother-sister mating. Mortality was 9% in outbred fish, and 42% in inbred fish, which implies at least 3.6 lethal equivalents...
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