Inbreeding Depression
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Inbreeding depression
A loss of vigour or yield due to inbreeding.
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Inbreeding
The mating of genetically related individuals. Mating between relatives. Breeding through a succession of parents belonging to the same stock.
inbreeding depression In a small population, an accumulation of harmful genetic traits (through random mutations and natural selection) that lowers viability and reproductive success of enough individuals to affect the whole population.
Inbreeding depression is the loss of fitness due to loss of genetic diversity. Inbred strains tend to be homozygous for recessive alleles that are mildly harmful (or produce a trait that is undesirable from the standpoint of the breeder).
 See also: Inbreeding, Plant, Gene, Population, Breed
  
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