In population genetics, there is a method of measuring how inbred a certain individual is, known as the inbreeding coefficient. Previously, I used to this technique to examine the amount of inbreeding ...

A comprehensive field survey of flower size variation was undertaken for the 19 recognised taxa of British Euphrasia. A total of 755 plants were sampled from 45 populations throughout the UK (Table 1) ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The coefficients of kinship were computed from the migration matrix for Narata, Kumamoto prefecture, and the whole of Japan. The ...

Increasing levels of inbreeding is a threat against the viability of the Scandinavian wolf population. A study just coming out in the new journal PLoS ONE now demonstrates that inbreeding is not ...

A new measure to give dairy producers more reliable information on inbreeding has been launched by AHDB. The genomic inbreeding coefficient uses the animal’s actual genetic make-up (or genotype) to ...