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Science 18 January 2002:
Vol. 295. no. 5554, pp. 454 - 455
DOI: 10.1126/science.1068916
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Perspectives

ECOLOGY:
Inbreeding and Metapopulations

Anthony R. Ives and Michael C. Whitlock

Inbreeding depression, the reduction in fitness that results from inbreeding, is probably the oldest observation about population genetics. In their Perspective, Ives and Whitlock discuss new data (Ebert et al.) that reveal the importance of inbreeding depression to a natural animal population.

A. R. Ives is in the Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA. E-mail: arives{at}facstaff.wisc.edu M. C. Whitlock is in the Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.

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