The meager dating pool available to Eastern Massasauga rattlesnake poses this problem for Michigan's only species of venomous snake: inbreeding. New research led by a former Michigan State University ...

Humans generally leave more descendants if they marry someone who is not too closely related. So highly inbred royal families experience many genetic disorders like hemophilia. Inbreeding is connected ...

EAST LANSING, MI – Michigan is home to a single species of venomous snake, and the isolated pockets of its populations are making it more likely it will go extinct. Researchers at Michigan State ...

In natural populations, the mating of related individuals generates a complex interplay between genetic risk and reproductive strategy. Inbreeding elevates the probability that offspring inherit ...

Inbreeding depression arises when mating between close relatives increases homozygosity, exposing deleterious recessive alleles and reducing individual fitness. In natural populations, the interplay ...