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The first paper that I want to analyze deals with a population of Cervus elaphus, which are red deer (Slate et al. 2000). Running a study like this on a wild population is difficult because it can take a while if the study animal lives for a long time, and it can be difficult to exactly know which animals are related. That is why, according to the author, this is the first time that a study has been done to test the level of heterozygosity and compare it to fitness in males and females in the wild. The authors did this by measuring lifetime breeding success (LBS) in both sexes and comparing it to the level of inbreeding. Inbreeding depression was measured by comparing heterozygosity at different loci for traits that play a role in overall fitness.
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