The Whittaker family from West Virginia has a complex history due to inbreeding, leading to severe genetic defects. Some ...

Many of their offspring suffered from severe physical and mental impairments due to the inbreeding. The family's notorious status has recently been amplified by a scandal involving their patriarch, ...

The only way to produce a tiger or lion with a white coat is through inbreeding brother to sister or father to daughter; generation after generation after generation. the kind of severe inbreeding ...

Isolated from other monkeys she was rarely touched, nurtured or socialized. In addition, Annie was the product of severe inbreeding through a program the breeder designed with hopes of creating a ...

Teacup dogs are not recognized or endorsed by the American Kennel Club, so there are no standards for any teacup breed. But ...

Inbreeding may increase the risk of amyloidosis ... Over the next century, such droughts are likely to become more frequent and severe, according to climate change projections.

Inbreeding may have caused the deformity and ... he had contracted the most severe form of the disease multiple times. Did malaria kill the king? Perhaps. The disease can trigger a fatal immune ...

I grew up with a boxer named Zack whom my family had adopted from our local shelter. We loved him dearly. He was a happy-go-lucky guy with a tail that never stopped wagging and a mouth that never ...

one former employee said that “fighting” and “inbreeding” had become commonplace because “animals were housed in inappropriate social groups”. She added that she had witnessed severe ...

A study by the German Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in Göttingen and Leipzig Zoo shows the ...

To our surprise, we found no signs of health problems related to inbreeding,’ Joseph Hoffman says. ‘We believe the severe population decline may have eliminated many harmful mutations.’ ...

Without mutation, no species would survive the severe, unpredictable stresses ... Diversity produces better fitness for survival. Inbreeding produces an opposite effect of biodiversity.