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SUBMITTER: Brambilla A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4262168 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brambilla Alice A Biebach Iris I Bassano Bruno B Bogliani Giuseppe G von Hardenberg Achaz A
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20150101 1798
Heterozygosity-fitness correlations (HFCs) are a useful tool to investigate the effects of inbreeding in wild populations, but are not informative in distinguishing between direct and indirect effects of heterozygosity on fitness-related traits. We tested HFCs in male Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) in a free-ranging population (which suffered a severe bottleneck at the end of the eighteenth century) and used confirmatory path analysis to disentangle the causal relationships between heterozygosity and ...[more]