Inbreeding depression—the reduced survival and fertility of offspring of related individuals—
occurs in wild animal and plant populations as well as in humans, indicating that genetic …

Whether inbreeding affects the demography and persistence of natural populations has
been questioned. However, new pedigree data from field populations and molecular and …

About 50 y ago, Crow and Kimura [An Introduction to Population Genetics Theory (1970)]
and Ohta and Kimura [Genet. Res. 22, 201–204 (1973)] laid the foundations of conservation …

The role of genetic factors in extinction has been a controversial issue, especially since
Lande's paper [Genetics and demography in biological conservation, Science 241 (1988) …

There is controversy concerning the role of genetic factors in species extinctions. Many
authors have asserted that species are usually driven to extinction before genetic factors …

Population genetic data underpin many studies of behavioral, ecological, and evolutionary
processes in wild populations and contribute to effective conservation management …

Evolution can be predicted in the short term from a knowledge of selection and inheritance.
However, in the long term evolution is unpredictable because environments, which …

Habitat loss and degradation that comes as a result of human activity is the single biggest
threat to biodiversity in the world today. Habitat Fragmentation and Landscape Change is a …

Inbreeding (mating between relatives) can dramatically reduce the fitness of offspring by
causing parts of the genome to be identical by descent. Thus, measuring individual …

▪ Abstract Inbreeding depression is of major concern in the management and conservation
of endangered species. Inbreeding appears universally to reduce fitness, but its magnitude …