New research from the Royal Veterinary College, in collaboration with Cornell University, has found inbreeding to be a contributing factor in mid- and late-term pregnancy loss in Thoroughbreds. This ...

Inbreeding has little effect on mare’s early pregnancy loss, a study from the Royal Veterinary College and Cornell University has shown. However, inbreeding does affect mid and late-term pregnancy ...

Santymire, R. M., Lonsdorf, E., V., Lynch, C. M., Wildt, D. E., Marinari, P. E., Kreeger, S., and Howard, J. G. 2019. "Inbreeding causes decreased seminal quality ...

We all understand the concept of inbreeding in human terms – where people who are too genetically similar reproduce, resulting in offspring with deformities. With each inbred generation, the gene pool ...