genetic differentiation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgeneticanddifferentiation
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genetic
adjective
uk/dʒəˈnet.ɪk/us/dʒəˈnet̬.ɪk/
belonging or relating to genes (= parts of the DNA in cells) received by each animal or plant from ...
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differentiation
noun
uk/ˌdɪf.ər.en.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌdɪf.ə.ren.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/
the act of showing or finding difference between things that ...
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Geneticdifferentiationamong the populations was not correlated with geographical distance.
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Missing values indicate that the pair of samples did not show significantgeneticdifferentiation.
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Geneticdifferentiationbetween the two subspecies was quantified for each locus and for all loci together.
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Geneticdifferentiationin populations of helminth parasites has been explained by several factors.
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It is worth mentioning, however, nogeneticdifferentiationrelated to the species of host pine was observed.
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The population grouping scheme revealed much lessgeneticdifferentiationwithin groups than among groups, as may be expected among closely located populations.
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First, each allele was present with equal probability in each initial population, so that nogeneticdifferentiationwas present.
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If thegeneticdifferentiationis limited, a large proportion of individuals will not be assigned at a significant level.
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Within groupgeneticdifferentiationand gene flow are shown on the diagonal in bold.
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The effects of such an expansion are to diminish estimates ofgeneticdifferentiationwhich leads to an overestimate of gene flow.
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The effective population size of a genome region also has direct effects ongeneticdifferentiation.
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The consequence of inbreeding andgeneticdifferentiationwas thus the growth of local particularism which legislation could only accept and exploit.
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Despite lowgeneticdifferentiationamong infrapopulations and a high mean intensity of parasite infection, genetic drift may exert an important effect on the population.
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How may we explain the high degree ofgeneticdifferentiation, in view of well conducted, authoritative ecological research that predicts an opposite expectation?
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The effect of delayed population growth on thegeneticdifferentiationof local populations subject to frequent extinctions and colonizations.
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Thisgeneticdifferentiationis attributable to migration and drift, and, in some cases, to selection heterogeneity.
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Unpredictable selection in a structured population leads to localgeneticdifferentiationin evolved reaction norms.
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Initial associations among loci have little effect on thegeneticdifferentiationof the quantitative traits, which remains higher than that of molecular markers (not shown).
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The vertical line indicates generation 8, when thegeneticdifferentiationwas measured in the experimental metapopulations.
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All individuals are generated independently in each population, so that the initialgeneticdifferentiation is close to zero, except for sampling variability.
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