Individuals in natural populations vary in their genealogy and thus have different genome-wide diversity. Those having more or/and more recent common ancestors between their maternal and paternal ...

This morning you may see that we have extended the computations of the Coefficient of Inbreeding and Coefficient of Relatedness to 10 generations. These coefficients were previously calculated over 8 ...

There are many ways to examine the social worlds of fact and fiction, and whether or not they are similar. In an article for* The Atlantic*, I examined the social networks of superheroes, a ...

Increasing levels of inbreeding is a threat against the viabi lity of the Scandinavian wolf population. A study just coming out in the new journal PLoS ONE now demonstrates that inbreeding is not ...

In its Season 7 finale, “The Dragon and the Wolf,” Game of Thrones is expected to double down on what it does best: incest. All the canoodling between the Mother of Dragons and the former King in the ...

A new measure to give dairy producers more reliable information on inbreeding has been launched by AHDB. The genomic inbreeding coefficient uses the animal’s actual genetic make-up (or genotype) to ...