Understanding and predicting the fitness decline of shrunk populations: inbreeding, purging, mutation, and standard selection.

Abstract excerpt

The joint consequences of inbreeding, natural selection, and deleterious mutation on mean fitness after population shrinkage are of great importance in evolution and can be critical to the conservation of endangered populations. I present simple analytical equations that predict these consequences, improving and extending a previous heuristic treatment. Purge is defined as the "extra" selection induced by...

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

• Share to Computer Simulation
• Share to Genes, Lethal
• Share to Genetic Fitness