Elimination of inbreeding depression from a captive population of Speke’s gazelle: Validity of the original statistical analysis and confirmation by permutation testing

Abstract 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2361(1998)17:23.3.CO;2-8 The Speke’s gazelle captive breeding program was designed in the early 1980s to simultaneously maintain the population’s genetic diversity while reducing the severity of the inbreeding depression in a situation in which inbreeding could not be avoided. Statistical analyses of the resulting data using both regression techniques and nonparametric exact contingency tests revealed […]