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Inbreeding leads to extinction

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Figure 1: Doomed liaison — a mating pair of Glanville fritillary butterflies (Melitaea cinxia).

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Frankham, R., Ralls, K. Inbreeding leads to extinction. Nature 392, 441–442 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/33022

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