Roughly 10,000 years ago, a small group of woolly mammoths found themselves stuck on an island off the coast of Siberia. While their mainland peers disappeared, this isolated herd multiplied.

But inbreeding isn’t just a problem in the ... would have a 25% chance of inheriting two bad copies of rare genetic mutations,” explains Dr. Adam Boyko, PhD, co-founder of Embark Veterinary ...

A new genomic analysis deepens the mystery. The study offers the fullest account to date of the inbreeding, deleterious mutations and low genetic diversity experienced by this population during ...

Dr. Shapiro prepared hereditary charts from which he plans to show the operation of the laws of genetics on Pitcairn ... 700 mutations in the fruit fly. “Inbreeding in this instance ...

The risk of inbreeding depression is increased if the ... "Non-invasive genetic analysis in conservation," in Population Genetics for Animal Conservation, eds. G. Bertorelle et al.

A study published last month (February 24) in Current Biology finds that death, dispersals, and an unknown innate strategy help wild baboons avoid inbreeding. But the animals do sometimes mate with ...

Such topics include: the rate of appearance of new, harmful mutations; the effect of continued inbreeding on fitness; differences in rates of evolution between genes transmitted maternally vs.