title: Inbreeding and juvenile mortality in small populations of ungulates.
abstract: Juvenile mortality of inbred young was higher than that of noninbred young in 15 of 16 species of captive ungulates. In 19 of 25 individual females, belonging to ten species, a larger percentage of young died when the female was mated to a related male than when she was mated to an unrelated male.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000836:Animals, Zoo / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D001188:Artiodactyla / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D005298:Fertility; D007178:Inbreeding; D008017:Life Expectancy