The evolution of inbreeding depression in a metapopulation

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The evolution of inbreeding depression in a
metapopulation

• Shurong Zhou
• Lanzhou university, China
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• John Pannell
• University of Oxford, UK

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• Inbreeding depression---reduction in fitness of
  inbred individuals relative to outbred ones
• Metapopulation---subdivided populations

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A case in China Panda nature reserves
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• Limitations in Current research
• No extinction
• One locus

• What we are doing now
• Population structure
• Recurrent extinction and recolonization
• Selection interference among loci

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Future collaboration

• Test our theoretical results in a real
  metapoulation
• The evolution of sexual systems in a
  metapopulation

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Thank you !