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Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on May 23, 2005.
Genetics, Vol. 170, 1373-1384, July 2005, Copyright © 2005
doi:10.1534/genetics.104.033373
A Genetic Interpretation of the Variation in Inbreeding Depression
Jacob A. Moorad1 and Michael J. Wade
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405
1 Corresponding author: Department of Biology, Indiana University, Jordan Hall, 1001 E. 3rd St., Bloomington, IN 47405-7005.
E-mail: jmoorad{at}indiana.edu
Inbreeding depression is expected to play an important but complicated role in evolution. If we are to understand the evolution of inbreeding depression (i.e., purging), we need quantitative genetic interpretations of its variation. We introduce an experimental design in which sires are mated to multiple dams, some of which are unrelated to the sire but others are genetically related owing to an arbitrary number of prior generations of selfing or sib-mating. In this way we introduce the concept of "inbreeding depression effect variance," a parameter more relevant to selection and the purging of inbreeding depression than previous measures. We develop an approach for interpreting the genetic basis of the variation in inbreeding depression by: (1) predicting the variation in inbreeding depression given arbitrary initial genetic variance and (2) estimating genetic variance components given half-sib covariances estimated by our experimental design. As quantitative predictions of selection depend upon understanding genetic variation, our approach reveals the important difference between how inbreeding depression is measured experimentally and how it is viewed by selection.
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