Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As we've been reminded by the new Game of Thrones spin-off, Westeros and incest go together like brother and sister. That being ...

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There are few topics in the world of pedigree theory—and for that matter in the Thoroughbred community as a whole—that are more emotive than the subject of inbreeding. On one hand, inbreeding, and ...

Royals throughout history have often engaged in inbreeding to preserve wealth and power, leading to severe health ...

Selfing or mating between related individuals can lead to inbreeding depression (ID), which can influence the survival, growth and evolution of populations of tree ...

Inbreeding and the health and reproductive issues that come with are causing leopards to be more vulnerable to extinction the study found Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...

Geneticists have been interested in inbreeding and inbreeding depression since the time of Darwin. Two alternative approaches that can be used to measure how inbred an individual is involve the use of ...

Higher levels of inbreeding in thoroughbreds result in fewer racehorses, according to new research published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. A study carried out by ...

Biologists have long known that inbreeding can be detrimental. Inbreeding results in less genetic variation, making species more vulnerable if changes occur that require them to adapt. Now we know ...

In population genetics, there is a method of measuring how inbred a certain individual is, known as the inbreeding coefficient. Previously, I used to this technique to examine the amount of inbreeding ...