Mating structure and the cost of deleterious mutation: I. Postponing inbreeding.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a110489

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Mating structure and the cost of deleterious mutation: I. Postponing inbreeding.

The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000

Campbell R B

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Mating structure governs the distribution of alleles in populations and thus the extent to which the phenotypes associated with the alleles are manifested. A mating system which initially achieves more genetic identity within individuals than between individuals enhances the probability that a fi...

Topics

Animals
Consanguinity
Genes, Lethal
Humans
Inbreeding
Models, Genetic
Mortality
Mutation
Probability
Reproduction

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