Female mice won't have sex with inbred males because they smell funny, a new study finds. Similar reactions could be widespread in other species — perhaps even humans, the scientists said. Animals ...

The mating success of male butterflies is often lower if they are inbred. But how do female butterflies know which males to avoid? New research reveals that inbred male butterflies produce ...

A research team has proposed inbred-parent–based hybrid cassava breeding to overcome the challenges of heterozygous parent use, aiming to transform cassava breeding by purging deleterious mutations ...

Female songbirds choose mates based on their songs, and this study provides some insights into what aspects of song they use to identify a "quality" male When a female chooses a mate, she is looking ...

Animals that are inbred make mistakes in response to changes in their surroundings, at a cost to themselves and their young. Animals that are inbred make mistakes in response to changes in their ...

Purebred dogs might look flawless on the outside, but their beauty often hides a disturbing genetic truth. For generations, breeders have prioritized traits like coat color and snub noses over genetic ...

Inbreeding may have been a common practice among early human ancestors, fossils show. The evidence comes from fragments of an approximately 100,000-year-old human skull unearthed at a site called ...

As its name implies, the Devil's Hole pupfish lives in a truly hellish environment. Confined to a single deep limestone cave in Nevada's Mojave Desert, 263 of them live in water that hovers around 93 ...

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