0 a situation in which plants, animals, or people are produced by breeding between closely related plants, animals, or people:
For instance, lethals may contribute substantially to inbreeding depression.
There was no evidence that inbreeding depression differed between the populations for any of the periods of mortality.
However, the population became split into sublines separated by age classes, which substantially increased inbreeding within sublines.
A key property of such an objective function is that it keeps the method used for genetic evaluation and the restriction in inbreeding separated.
For slow breeding plants and animals, especially for those suffering from inbreeding depression, this option is not realistic.
Here we study the effect of population size on the inbreeding depression caused by mildly deleterious alleles.
We found that the model has low statistical power when inbreeding depression is caused by the build-up of mildly deleterious alleles.
In these models, inbreeding depression is assumed to affect zygote-to-adult viability only.
