Letting black rhinos roam freely may be the best way to save them from the hidden genetic dangers of inbreeding, according to ...

Rather, I want to point to something interesting: The highest levels of inbreeding in major populations have been found in urban Pondicherry (South India) and among army families in Pakistan where ...

Genetic study finds high inbreeding rates in South Indian communities The authors also identified variants responsible for diseases and drug responses unique to a specific population.

Inbreeding among an endangered population of ... 2 orcas slaughter 19 sharks in a single day in South Africa, eating their livers and leaving them to rot Those include polychlorinated biphenyls ...

Children of inbreeding are also twice as likely to be ... North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia, Some states allow first-cousin marriages with some ...

only found in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana, with a total population size of fewer than 10,000 individuals. The black-footed cat’s genome shows a high level of inbreeding, likely due to ...

The population is not necessarily doomed, she said. “It’s not often inbreeding itself that will result in a shortened lifespan or kill an individual,” Parsons said. “It's really that ...