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I’m ignorant on this topic, but aren’t animals with a wider gene pool usually more robust?
by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago
I’m ignorant on this topic, but aren’t animals with a wider gene pool usually more robust?
- AstralStorm 7y agoWe're not talking wider gene pool, were higher generation crosses with a modified subspecies. This is somewhat different as original sterile flies were designed to produce low viability first crosses. It remains to be seen if they're more or less robust. Any outcome is possible. They could also be more or less fecund. They will be harder to kill off via an engineered program like a disease or maybe sooner insecticides.
- sbierwagen 7y agoNot always. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outbreeding_depression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outbreeding_depression