However, although there was a strong trend towards significance, after a Bonferroni correction, the observed percentage of females re-mating was not significantly greater than in the ‘Age-corrected’ or ‘BS-corrected’ simulations (‘Age-corrected’, Z = 2.68, P = 0.004, ‘BS-corrected’, Z = 2.13, P = 0.017, number of tests = 18, therefore, Bonferroni level of significance = 0.003).
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Re-mating across years and intralineage polygyny are associated with greater than expected levels of inbreeding in wild red deer.
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Two aspects of mating systems have been revealed in polygynous mammals which, although extremely rarely reported, are potentially highly significant to the link between philopatry and co-ancestry/inbreeding.