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Kinship between parents reduces offspring fitness in a natural population of Rhododendron brachycarpum.
Annals of botany - 1 Apr 2010
Hirao Akira S
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: A reduction in offspring fitness resulting from mating between neighbours is interpreted as biparental inbreeding depression. However, little is known about the relationship between the parents' genetic relatedness and biparental inbreeding depression in their progeny in natural populations. This study assesses the effect of kinship between parents on the fitness of their progeny and the...
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