inbreeding

How To Use inbreeding In A Sentence

• Inbreeding may account for the fact that far fewer than half of all breeding mares foal each year.
• The methodology is applicable to the investigation of parentage for all progeny developed from parental mating without subsequent generations of inbreeding.
• This has already been a problem with Labs, which often suffer arthritic hips due to inbreeding.
• One way to overcome inbreeding depression is by periodically introducing new genetic variation in a process known as outcrossing, where members of the breed are mated with individuals from outside the breed. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
• Second, there are no known cases in which all individuals of a population are self-sterile due to inbreeding depression, although complete self-sterility has been found in individual plants.
• In the absence of inbreeding, the most extreme value of coancestry is achieved by male polygyny together with female philopatry.
• In the 19th century, inbreeding nearly led to the extinction of the royal family.
• The fix F suggests that A. is nearly outcrossing while the other two are marly inbreeding.
• Recessive deleterious mutations are a major cause for the phenomenon of inbreeding depression, and diploidy may have evolved to mask the effects of recessive deleterious mutations.
• This makes it possible to arrange matings by computer in order to minimize problems caused by inbreeding.