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Chimpanzees breed with genetically dissimilar mates

Inbreeding adversely affects fitness, whereas heterozygosity often augments it. Therefore, mechanisms to avoid inbreeding and increase genetic distance between mates should be advantageous in species where adult relatives reside together. Here we investigate mate choice for genetic dissimilarity in...

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Publicado en:R Soc Open Sci
Main Authors: Walker, Kara K., Rudicell, Rebecca S., Li, Yingying, Hahn, Beatrice H., Wroblewski, Emily, Pusey, Anne E.
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2017
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5319312/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28280546
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160422
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