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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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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National Academy of Sciences
2020
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