A1 Journal article (refereed)
The effect of inbreeding rate on fitness, inbreeding depression and heterosis over a range of inbreeding coefficients (2014)

Pekkala, N., Knott, E., Kotiaho, J. S., Nissinen, K., & Puurtinen, M. (2014). The effect of inbreeding rate on fitness, inbreeding depression and heterosis over a range of inbreeding coefficients. Evolutionary Applications, 7(9), 1107-1119. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12145

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Publication details

All authors or editors: Pekkala, Nina; Knott, Emily; Kotiaho, Janne Sakari; Nissinen, Kari; Puurtinen, Mikael

Journal or series: Evolutionary Applications

ISSN: 1752-4571

eISSN: 1752-4571

Publication year: 2014

Volume: 7

Issue number: 9

Pages range: 1107-1119

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Publication country: United Kingdom

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12145

Persistent website address: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eva.12145/pdf

Research data link: http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.10154

Publication open access: Openly available

Publication channel open access: Open Access channel

Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/44534

Abstract

Understanding the effects of inbreeding and genetic drift within populations and hybridization between genetically differentiated populations is important for many basic and applied questions in ecology and evolutionary biology. The magnitudes and even the directions of these effects can be influenced by various factors, especially by the current and historical population size (i.e. inbreeding rate). Using Drosophila littoralis as a model species, we studied the effect of inbreeding rate over a range of inbreeding levels on (i) mean fitness of a population (relative to that of an outbred control population), (ii) within‐population inbreeding depression (reduction in fitness of offspring from inbred versus random mating within a population) and (iii) heterosis (increase in fitness of offspring from interpopulation versus within‐population random mating). Inbreeding rate was manipulated by using three population sizes (2, 10 and 40), and fitness was measured as offspring survival and fecundity. Fast inbreeding (smaller effective population size) resulted in greater reduction in population mean fitness than slow inbreeding, when populations were compared over similar inbreeding coefficients. Correspondingly, populations with faster inbreeding expressed more heterosis upon interpopulation hybridization. Inbreeding depression within the populations did not have a clear relationship with either the rate or the level of inbreeding.

Free keywords: genetic distance; genetic divergence; genetic drift; interpopulation hybridization; population size

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Reporting Year: 2014

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