Sex-specific inbreeding depression: A meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: Inbreeding depression, the reduced fitness of the offspring of related individuals, can affect males and females differently. Although a comprehensive theoretical framework describing the causes of sex-specific inbreeding depression is lacking, empirical evidence suggests that often one sex tends to be more vulnerable than the other. However, the generality, direction, and degree of sex-specific difference in inbreeding depression remains enigmatic as studies on this topic have reported conflicting results. Here, we conduct a meta-analysis to test for sex-specific differences in the magnitude of inbreeding depression. We synthetised 321 effect sizes of experimental studies across 47 species and found a small difference in inbreeding depression between the sexes: females suffered slightly h

SUBMITTER: Vega-Trejo R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9304238 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature