Cost, risk and avoidance of inbreeding in a cooperatively breeding bird

Inbreeding is often avoided in natural populations by passive processes such as sex-biased dispersal. But, in many social animals, opposite-sexed adult relatives are spatially clustered, generating a risk of incest and hence selection for active inbreeding avoidance. Here we show that, in long-taile...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Leedale, AE, Simeoni, M, Sharp, SP, Green, JP, Slate, J, Lachlan, RF, Robinson, EJH, Hatchwell, BJ
Materialtyp: Journal article
Språk:English
Publicerad: National Academy of Sciences 2020