Sex with your sibling or other close relations, if you are a dog, is called inbreeding, and inbreeding is part of the practice of pure-breeding dogs.

A study being called the most comprehensive genetic analysis of North American Thoroughbreds found no genetic ties related to health concerns or durability and detected a slight rise in inbreeding ...

The genome of a once-endangered songbird shows extensive signs of inbreeding, according to a new study. Because inbreeding can negatively impact survival and reproduction, the results could guide ...

Generative AI risks inbreeding where AI-generated content used for training future AIs leads to a decline in quality and diversity, akin to the effects of inbreeding.

Inbreeding of dogs can lead to blindness, deafness, and genetic diseases. Learn how it impacts generations of dogs and what ethical breeders do to prevent it.

A research paper just published in Science China Life Sciences reported that dominance, segregation distortion and epistasis together formed the genomic architecture of inbreeding depression in an ...

The magnitude of inbreeding depression in small populations may depend on the effectiveness with which natural selection purges deleterious recessive alleles from populations during inbreeding. The ...