Inbreeding depression, the reduction of fitness caused by inbreeding, is a nearly universal
phenomenon that depends on past mutation, selection, and genetic drift. Recent estimates …

Advancing technologies have facilitated the ever‐widening application of genetic markers
such as microsatellites into new systems and research questions in biology. In light of the …

A fully updated guide to the increasingly prevalent use of molecular data in ecological
studies Molecular ecology is concerned with how molecular biology and population genetics …

I consider how the study of genetic variation has influenced efforts to conserve natural
populations over the last 50 years. Studies with allozymes in the 1970s provided the first …

Inbreeding depression (reduced fitness of individuals with related parents) has long been a
major focus of ecology, evolution, and conservation biology. Despite decades of research …

Inbreeding (mating between relatives) can dramatically reduce the fitness of offspring by
causing parts of the genome to be identical by descent. Thus, measuring individual …

Inbreeding (mating between relatives) is a major concern for conservation as it decreases
individual fitness and can increase the risk of population extinction. We used whole-genome …

Heterozygosity–fitness correlations (HFCs) have been widely used to explore the impact of
inbreeding on individual fitness. Initially, most studies used small panels of microsatellites …

Proxy measures of genome-wide heterozygosity based on approximately 10 microsatellites
have been used to uncover heterozygosity fitness correlations (HFCs) for a wealth of …

Populations of fishes are increasingly threatened by over‐exploitation, pollution, habitat
destruction, and climate change. In order to better understand the factors that can explain …