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Mantids inbreeding
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<blockquote data-quote="guapoalto049" data-source="post: 344643" data-attributes="member: 4037"><p>Great question! In my opinion the amount inbreeding plays is overblown. I can’t imagine there is a ton of movement in nature for a particular species within a 10 year period in a normal setting. </p><p> My Deroplatys truncata have been interbred for 6 years straight and my hatch rates, adult size, and any other noticeable parameter all seem about the same to me. </p><p> I just don’t think people breed mantises in numbers enough to really gauge the effect. For example, if you have a group of 8 pairs of a species, some males will just never show interest and some females will never call. It’s just the way it is. Now if one of those individuals was the only one a person had, they often blame it on inbreeding. It’s just luck of the draw when one keeps very few individuals </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="guapoalto049, post: 344643, member: 4037"] Great question! In my opinion the amount inbreeding plays is overblown. I can’t imagine there is a ton of movement in nature for a particular species within a 10 year period in a normal setting. My Deroplatys truncata have been interbred for 6 years straight and my hatch rates, adult size, and any other noticeable parameter all seem about the same to me. I just don’t think people breed mantises in numbers enough to really gauge the effect. For example, if you have a group of 8 pairs of a species, some males will just never show interest and some females will never call. It’s just the way it is. Now if one of those individuals was the only one a person had, they often blame it on inbreeding. It’s just luck of the draw when one keeps very few individuals [/QUOTE]
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