RE: Why does science always upstage God?
December 31, 2017 at 7:00 pm
(This post was last modified: December 31, 2017 at 8:20 pm by Amarok.)
It still causes defects that threaten the whole wolf population over the long term. I would say that's pretty massive you know because they will go extinct unless new outside wolves are introduced to increase genetic diversity . Your clearly picking and choosing what you wanna take from this . The fact is the wolves are threatened by inbreeding it's not healthy nor is it producing a permanent stable population .So MY case is proven and your sloppy cherry picking of science to support your fairytales is the thing that's eaten it .
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So more for you to chew on
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0375-4
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article...ne.0067218
http://www.uu.se/en/news-media/news/arti...yp=artikel
Quote:Inbreeding does not seem to have hurt the Scandinavian population so far, but Flagstad says there have been some effects.
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Quote:For long-term survival, Flagstad believes that it is important that new wolves come in from the outside world.
Quote:“We have seen some individual consequences of inbreeding, such as dental defects, skeletal defects and sterility in some males. But we see the consequence of inbreeding most clearly in the size of the family groups,” Flagstad said.Again your selective reading at it's finest the wolves are not healthy and are under threat for their survival . Again my original point stands . Inbreeding threatens the wolf . Therefore this does not support the idea two creatures can create a thriving stable population . And is indeed a massive defect caused by inbreeding .
The size of family groups is determined each winter by examining tracks and scat.
"What we see is that parents who are severely inbred have fewer offspring. A smaller proportion of their pups grow to adulthood. The close kinship seems to affect the survival of pups and reproduction in adult wolves,” says Flagstad.
So more for you to chew on
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0375-4
Quote:Inbreeding (mating between relatives) is a major concern for conservation as it decreases individual fitness and can increase the risk of population extinction.
Quote:Small populations are particularly vulnerable to extinction due to demographic stochasticity, reduced genetic variation and inbreeding depression1,2,3,4. Inbreeding (mating between relatives) in small populations can lead to decreased individual fitness and population growth rate, owing to the expression of deleterious recessive alleles and increased homozygosity at loci with heterozygous advantage3,5
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article...ne.0067218
Quote: Our ability to detect this increase was likely facilitated by having considered multiple kinds of anomaly. Many of the found anomalies are likely associated with inbreeding or some form of genetic deterioration
http://www.uu.se/en/news-media/news/arti...yp=artikel
Quote:Researchers from Uppsala University and others have for the first time determined the full genetic consequences of intense inbreeding in a threatened species.
Quote:The Scandinavian wolf population was founded in the 1980s by only two individuals. This has subsequently led to intense inbreeding, which is considered a long-term threat to the population.
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