Inbreeding depression in an outbred stickleback population.

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Inbreeding depression refers to the reduced fitness of offspring produced by genetically-related individuals and is expected to be rare in large, outbred populations. When it occurs, marked fitness loss is possible as large populations can carry a substantial load of recessive harmful mutations which are normally sheltered at the heterozygous state. Using experimental cross data and genome-wide...

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