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From: Inbreeding depression in red deer calves

Figure 2

The effect of offspring inbreeding coefficient on birth weight in red deer. Solid line represents the least squares regression line (i.e. not correcting for other terms in the mixed model) including all inbreeding coefficients, dashed line represents the least squares regression line with offspring with inbreeding coefficients of 0.25 removed. Calves with higher inbreeding coefficients are born lighter, but this seems to be a result of the reduced birth weight of highly inbred (F = 0.25, father-daughter matings) calves.

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