Heterozygosity-fitness correlations and their relevance to studies on inbreeding depression in threatened species.

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The majority of reported multilocus heterozygosity-fitness correlations (HFCs) are from large, outbred populations, and their relevance to studies on inbreeding depression in threatened populations is often stressed. The results of such HFC studies conducted on outbred populations may be of limited application to threatened population management, however, as bottlenecked populations exhibit increased incidence of...

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