Title |
Inbreeding depression in red deer calves
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Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, October 2011
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-11-318 |
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Authors |
Craig A Walling, Daniel H Nussey, Alison Morris, Tim H Clutton-Brock, Loeske EB Kruuk, Josephine M Pemberton |
Abstract |
Understanding the fitness consequences of inbreeding is of major importance for evolutionary and conservation biology. However, there are few studies using pedigree-based estimates of inbreeding or investigating the influence of environment and age variation on inbreeding depression in natural populations. Here we investigated the consequences of variation in inbreeding coefficient for three juvenile traits, birth date, birth weight and first year survival, in a wild population of red deer, considering both calf and mother's inbreeding coefficient. We also tested whether inbreeding depression varied with environmental conditions and maternal age. |
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