Once a mighty Royal dynasty at the helm of sprawling Spanish and Austrian empires, the Habsburgs are infamous nowadays for the pronounced "Habsburg jaw", a dramatic facial deformity. According to one ...

The once-mighty Habsburg dynasty, which ruled vast empires in Spain and Austria, is now notorious for its distinctive "Habsburg jaw" facial deformity, believed to be caused by generations of ...

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 ...

This study was reported by Qifa Zhang and Yidan Ouyang’ group from the National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China. Inbreeding depression is ...