An improved method for estimating inbreeding depression in pedigrees

Abstract 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2361(1998)17:63.3.CO;2-7 Fitness is expected to decrease with inbreeding in proportion to the amount of deleterious genetic variation present in a population. The effect of inbreeding on survivorship is usually modeled as a negative exponential relationship, and this model has been widely used to estimate the amount of deleterious genetic variation in populations. Linear regression […]