Inbreeding effect: embryonic development and fecundity of Drosophila melanogaster offspring.
Inbreeding depression observed on fecundity of adult Drosophila depends on the effect observed during development of the eggs laid by their parents. This depression does not then depend on the homozygosity per se of the adult genome. It is mainly due to the deleterious effect observed primarily during embryogenesis.
D000818:Animals; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000196:embryology / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D005298:Fertility; D007178:Inbreeding