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Quantifying realized inbreeding in wild and captive animal populations.
Heredity - 1 Apr 2015
Knief U, Hemmrich-Stanisak G, Wittig M, Franke A, Griffith S C, Kempenaers B, Forstmeier W
Abstract excerpt
Most molecular measures of inbreeding do not measure inbreeding at the scale that is most relevant for understanding inbreeding depression-namely the proportion of the genome that is identical-by-descent (IBD). The inbreeding coefficient FPed obtained from pedigrees is a valuable estimator of IBD, but pedigrees are not always available, and cannot capture inbreeding loops that reach back in time further than the...
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