https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/09/how-to-avoid-inbreeding/ Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:59:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/09/how-to-avoid-inbreeding/#comment-390 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:59:41 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/09/how-to-avoid-inbreeding/#comment-390 MUP’s are, essentially, Mouse pheromones. It’s actually even more interesting than that. MUPs are not mouse pheremones; they are pheremone-binding proteins, that slowly release their bound cargo of pheremones over time.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/09/how-to-avoid-inbreeding/#comment-389 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:09:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/09/how-to-avoid-inbreeding/#comment-389 yeila: There are likely to be other factors as well, such as imprinting. In humans, that takes the form of the famous Westermarck effect, where we imprint on our siblings during a specific period during the toddler years.Also, the instincts in question may well have been damaged during domestication (almost certainly for the birds, quite likely for the goats).

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/09/how-to-avoid-inbreeding/#comment-388 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:31:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/09/how-to-avoid-inbreeding/#comment-388 bilmem ki

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/09/how-to-avoid-inbreeding/#comment-387 Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:41:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/09/how-to-avoid-inbreeding/#comment-387 OK, so you can tell who is too related to mate to by smell? The response is not to be attracted to/not mate with a related individual? I breed dairy goats and my herd is fairly (in human terms) inbred. I don’t see any indication that there is any unwillingness to breed with ones relatives, even siblings, and have to make a lot of effort to prevent it when I want to avoid it. Same thing with sheep so spare me the goat jokes 🙂 Maybe the difference is that goats and sheep are herd animals and close breedings are common where there are many females and only a few/one males? But then, my turkeys don’t seem to care how closely they mate either, even parent child matings are common. I know this because I had one tom and all hens, even his daughters hatched chicks. I guess I’m just not seeing this thing in the barnyard.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/09/how-to-avoid-inbreeding/#comment-386 Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:54:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/09/how-to-avoid-inbreeding/#comment-386 CH: MUP’s are, essentially, Mouse pheromones. I don’t know off hand what the human homolog is … I’ll bet we have that gene cluster, but I don’t know what we do with it.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/09/how-to-avoid-inbreeding/#comment-385 Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:13:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/09/how-to-avoid-inbreeding/#comment-385 Is there any evidence of any influence of MUPs on pheromones? This study would appear to indicate that a connection there should be investigated.

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