Inbreeding

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 3D phenotyping and quantitative trait locus mapping identify core regions of the rice genome controlling root architecture. 
  • Coevolution of self-fertilization and inbreeding depression. I. Mutation-selection balance at one and two loci. 
  • Coevolution of self-fertilization and inbreeding depression. II. Symmetric overdominance in viability. 
  • Coevolution of self-fertilization and inbreeding depression. III. Homozygous lethal mutations at multiple loci. 
  • Control of rice grain-filling and yield by a gene with a potential signature of domestication. 
  • Decoding an olfactory mechanism of kin recognition and inbreeding avoidance in a primate. 
  • Genetic and physiological basis of adaptive salt tolerance divergence between coastal and inland Mimulus guttatus. 
  • Great ape genetic diversity and population history. 
  • Hybridization can facilitate species invasions, even without enhancing local adaptation. 
  • Identification of quantitative trait loci and a candidate locus for freezing tolerance in controlled and outdoor environments in the overwintering crucifer Boechera stricta. 
  • Inbreeding depression in non-human primates: a historical review of methods used and empirical data. 
  • Linkage of genes for laminin B1 and B2 subunits on chromosome 1 in mouse. 
  • Multilocus analysis of variation and speciation in the closely related species Arabidopsis halleri and A. lyrata. 
  • Multiple paternity and sporophytic inbreeding depression in a dioicous moss species. 
  • On the evolution of genetic incompatibility systems. III. Introduction of weak gametophytic self-incompatibility under partial inbreeding. 
  • On the evolution of genetic incompatibility systems. IV. Modification of response to an existing antigen polymorphism under partial selfing. 
  • On the evolution of genetic incompatibility systems. V. Origin of sporophytic self-incompatibility in response to overdominance in viability. 
  • On the evolutionary costs of self-incompatibility: incomplete reproductive compensation due to pollen limitation. 
  • On the origins of congenic MATalpha and MATa strains of the pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Paternal kin discrimination in wild baboons. 
  • Phenotypic plasticity and adaptive evolution contribute to advancing flowering phenology in response to climate change. 
  • The effects of quantitative fecundity in the haploid stage on reproductive success and diploid fitness in the aquatic peat moss Sphagnum macrophyllum. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Alberts, Susan C., Robert F. Durden Professor of Biology, Duke Science & Society
  • Pusey, Anne, James B. Duke Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Evolutionary Anthropology