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How to use inbreeding in a sentence

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Mechanisms of inbreeding avoidance are well documented in vertebrate societies.
In the absence of inbreeding, the most extreme value of coancestry is achieved by male polygyny together with female philopatry.
The relative importance of LMC and of inbreeding depends on the number of foundresses that oviposit in a local patch.
Additional benefits of dispersal from the natal area might be avoidance of high levels of inbreeding or avoidance of local resource competition.
The improvement in height was attributed in part to natural and artifical selection for rapid growth, but primarily to a reduction in inbreeding.
A previous study suggested that male and female sexuals of the Argentine ant Linepithema humile may use genetic cues to avoid inbreeding.
With inbreeding among gametes, however, an entirely different picture emerges.
However, managers may also control the mating scheme to further decrease inbreeding.
Significant inbreeding depression was found for rust resistance in slash pine.
This may occur if females cannibalize their dead brothers or are prevented from inbreeding or competing with them.
In Datura stramonium, no effect of inbreeding could be detected on resistance to two herbivores.
The fitness consequences of inbreeding and outbreeding have intrigued biologists for a long time.
This emphasizes that there is a general effect of inbreeding that is an indirect result of the change in genotype frequencies.
They propose that high levels of homozygosity due to inbreeding may lead to high rates of seed abortion.
Sperm selection may thus be driven by the costs associated with inbreeding and outbreeding.
It would operate like inbreeding, which increases the odds of offspring inheriting the same deleterious recessive allele from both parents.
Normally, that would be a composite result of generations of line breeding rather than immediate inbreeding.
Each person has their own specifics when defining inbreeding, line breeding, and out-crossing.
Actually the distinction between inbreeding and line breeding cannot be sharply defined.
Furthermore, by inbreeding his livestock he fixed and exaggerated those traits he felt to be desirable.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Out-crossing or mixing in of new blood is better than hit-or-miss inbreeding.
The due adjustment of inbreeding and outbreeding is always a difficult problem of policy for breeders of animals.
It is very probable, but not absolutely certain, that inbreeding is harmful.
The nation, as it were, sickened in a marasmus of intellectual inbreeding.
The increase in inbreeding per generation has been kept low as matings between close relatives have been avoided.
The notion of harm in inbreeding has spread all over the earth.
In inbreeding the great difficulty of the breeder is to know when to stop.
It presupposes no assortative mating, no inbreeding and no selection.
Increased homozygosity leads to inbreeding depression if the recessive alleles are detrimental.
Though the genetic harms of inbreeding are well known, kin marriages produce more viable offspring than the alternative of no marriage.
In small, isolated populations mating amongst relatives and inbreeding are unavoidable.
They want to find out if decreasing numbers of adders in the region has led to inbreeding.
The people, though still sturdy, seem to have become somewhat dull from inbreeding and to have required an infusion of altogether different blood from without.
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