Supplementary tables and figures from Sex-specific impact of inbreeding on pathogen load in the striped dolphin

The impact of inbreeding on fitness has been widely studied and provides consequential inference about the adaptive potential and the impact on survival for reduced and fragmented natural populations. Correlations between heterozygosity and fitness are common in the literature, but they rarely inform about the likely mechanisms. Here, we investigate a pathology with a clear impact on health in striped dolphin hosts (a nematode infection that compromises lung function). Dolphins varied with respect to their parasite burden of this highly pathogenic lung nematode (Skrjabinalius guevarai). Genetic diversity revealed by high-resolution restriction-associated DNA (43 018 RADseq SNPs) analyses sh…