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Inbreeding tolerance and fitness costs in wild bottlenose dolphins.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Sept 2010
Frère Céline H, Krützen Michael, Kopps Anna M, Ward Patrick, Mann Janet, Sherwin William B
Abstract excerpt
In wild populations, inbreeding tolerance is expected to evolve where the cost of avoidance exceeds that of tolerance. We show that in a wild population of bottlenose dolphins found in East Shark Bay, Western Australia, levels of inbreeding are higher than expected by chance alone, and demonstrate that inbreeding is deleterious to female fitness in two independent ways. We found that inbred females, and females...
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