For example, in this context, a 2009 veterinary medicine study tried to determine the genetic diversity within cat breeds.
[2] A degree of outcrossing to avoid mating between very close relatives is believed to happen in the wild.
The primary adaptive function of flowers is the facilitation of outcrossing, a process that allows the masking of deleterious mutations in the genome of progeny.
Outcrossing in fungi involves syngamy between haploid cells produced by separate diploid individuals.
[4] Life-history traits are said to increase the probability of outcrossing in fungi, such as long-distance dispersal and persistence of the haploid stage.