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Intentional, systematic, rapid inbreeding has been useful, both in genetic research and in plant and animal breeding. Mendel’s success in deciphering the action of his “unit factors” in pea plants was in part attributable to the fact that these plants are naturally self fertilizing. Having made a cross between lines with opposing characteristics, he could then allow inbreeding to sort out the results over the next several generations.
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Doolittle, D.P. (1987). Systematic Inbreeding. In: Population Genetics. Advanced Series in Agricultural Sciences, vol 16. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71734-5_29
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