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Conservation genetics

lower fitness in offspring of crosses between genetically distant populations, from loss of local adaptation or broken gene combinations.

In conservation genetics, outbreeding depression refers to lower fitness in offspring of crosses between genetically distant populations, from loss of local adaptation or broken gene combinations. This meaning comes from Frankham (2011) in Conservation Biology.[1]

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References

Frankham, R., Ballou, J. D., Eldridge, M. D. B., Lacy, R. C., Ralls, K., Dudash, M. R., & Fenster, C. B. (2011). Predicting the Probability of Outbreeding Depression. Conservation Biology, 25(3), 465-475. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01662.x

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