It is hard to be small: Inbreeding depression on male breeding success depends on body size in a threatened songbird.

Abstract excerpt

While inbreeding is known to affect individual fitness and thus population extinction risk, studies often under-represent non-model species of conservation concern and rarely examine the conditionality of inbreeding depression. Here, using genomic markers (SNPs), we determined inbreeding depression in a threatened bird, the aquatic warbler Acrocephalus paludicola - a habitat specialist with depleted genetic...

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• Body Size
• Breeding
• Endangered Species
• Genetic Fitness
• Inbreeding