Genetic consequences of inbreeding
1) decrease in heterozygosity, no change in P (allelic diversity)
(the more related the individuals, the faster the loss of H)
2) increases the probability of a zygote receiving identical alleles
(homologous alleles), which will result in increased expression
3) increased phenotypic expression of deleterious alleles (strongly
- often results in decreased size, reproduction, vigor, etc.,
which decrease fitness (i.e., inbreeding depression)
4) increase in phenotypic variability resulting from a deviation
from the mean genotypes in non-inbred individuals