The magnitude of inbreeding depression in small populations may depend on the effectiveness with which natural selection purges deleterious recessive alleles from populations during inbreeding. The ...

A retrospective study of the breeding records of a laboratory colony of an Australian rodent, Rattus villosissimus, demonstrated significant inbreeding depression in the number of young born per ...

Despite a comprehensive understanding of heterosis, the genetic basis of inbreeding depression has been debated for a long time, especially in self-pollinating species such as rice.