Refers to mating among biological relatives, including self-fertilization, brother- sister mating and mating with ancestors or offspring. coefficient of inbreeding, inbreeding in autopolyploids, inbreeding and death rates, inbreeding and population size, inbreeding progress; Fisher RA 1949 The Theory of Inbreeding, Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh.
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(2008). Inbreeding. In: Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Informatics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6754-9_8392
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