Timeline for Why didn't Escobar's hippos introduced in a single event die out due to inbreeding
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| Feb 13, 2021 at 21:56 | answer | added | jmoreno | timeline score: 1 | |
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| S Feb 13, 2021 at 17:16 | history | suggested | Rodrigo de Azevedo |
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| Feb 12, 2021 at 17:02 | comment | added | ceejayoz | The European royal families handily demonstrate that inbreeding isn't necessarily a showstopper. | |
| Feb 12, 2021 at 13:32 | vote | accept | RedBaron | ||
| Feb 12, 2021 at 11:54 | answer | added | Graham | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 12, 2021 at 9:24 | answer | added | Roger V. | timeline score: 6 | |
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| Feb 11, 2021 at 21:39 | history | edited | MattDMo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 11, 2021 at 21:21 | answer | added | Mike Serfas | timeline score: 7 | |
| Feb 11, 2021 at 18:37 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | @llama Well, domestic hamsters are by far the majority of them - apparently a few have been found in the wild since, but nowhere near the numbers of domestic ones. Either way, even if it is only North America, we're still talking about millions of hamsters descended from one litter. | |
| Feb 11, 2021 at 18:33 | comment | added | llama | @DarrelHoffman at least according to wikipedia, that's not quite true about golden hamsters - only domestic ones (maybe only north american? wording unclear) and it also has a glaring "citation needed" | |
| Feb 11, 2021 at 18:01 | comment | added | user2352714 | Keep in mind, it usually takes several generations for inbreeding to show its effects. The first couple of generations won't be that inbred at all, but as the inbreeding coefficient rises and the average individual is more and more related to one another they are more likely to show ill effects. Hippos only reach sexual maturity at about age five to six so there have only been a handful of generations born in Colombia as of now. | |
| Feb 11, 2021 at 16:12 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | It happens in other species. Hamsters, for example. Every golden hamster alive today is descended from 1 mother and a litter found in Syria in the 1930's, and there's millions (maybe billions?) of them due to their popularity as pets. And hamsters don't live nearly as long as hippos, so we're talking far more generations, and a longer timespan, and that genetic bottleneck hasn't been a problem yet. | |
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| Feb 11, 2021 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackBiology/status/1359879879764959234 | ||
| Feb 11, 2021 at 14:50 | history | edited | MattDMo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 11, 2021 at 11:10 | history | edited | RedBaron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 11, 2021 at 8:21 | answer | added | user2352714 | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 11, 2021 at 8:16 | comment | added | Remi.b | It is definitely not the case of all invasive species but in sunflowers at least, there is a tendency of invasive lineages to reproduce clonally (Bock et al, 2018) | |
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| Feb 11, 2021 at 7:26 | history | asked | RedBaron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |