Promiscuity, inbreeding and dispersal propensity in great tits

Mating with relatives leads to inbred offspring, which are likely to experience reduced fitness owing to the expression of deleterious recessive alleles. Constraints in social mate choice do not always allow individuals to avoid pairing with kin. A possible means of inbreeding avoidance is to engage...

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Những tác giả chính: Szulkin, M, Chapman, JR, Patrick, S, Sheldon, B
Định dạng: Journal article
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: 2012