Wednesday, 28 September 2011

Promiscuity goes with Inbreeding

"Researchers from the U.K. set out to test this idea, and the results were pretty conclusive. Red flour beetles were mated sibling-to-sibling for fifteen generations, effectively creating a “genetic bottleneck,” before being compared to their non-inbred (i.e., outbred) counterparts. Inbred and outbred females were offered 10 virgin males to mate with (insert joke I don’t have the guts to make), and the inbred females were more promiscuous by all measures:"

Read the whole blog here: http://trynerdy.com/?p=1177

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