ancestral population
collocation in Englishmeaningsofancestralandpopulation
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ancestral
adjective[before noun]
uk/ænˈses.trəl/us/ænˈses.trəl/
relating to members of your family from ...
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population
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/ˌpɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/us/ˌpɑː.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
all the people living in a particular country, area, ...
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On crossing, therefore, the viability and the number of lethal equivalents due to them return to the original values of theancestralpopulation.
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However, reliable estimates of relative rates among loci can be expected to reduce the sampling error of the estimatedancestralpopulationsize.
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In some empirical studies, comparisons of fitness between crossbreds and the outbredancestralpopulationhave been used to test for purging.
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These methods are based on likelihood and take into account the effect of polymorphism in theancestralpopulation.
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Note that type 4 and 5 events are observationally indistinguishable, but involve different states of theancestralpopulation.
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Clearly, type 2 and 3 events are indistinguishable empirically, but both correspond to a polymorphism that existed in theancestralpopulation.
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The only caveat of this method is that the variability in theancestralpopulationis required for this correction.
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If so, it would be instructive to have an indication of trematode diversity in theancestralpopulation.
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Nuclear sequence data related to the evolution of modern humans were reanalysed and computer simulations were performed to examine the effect of rate variation on estimation ofancestralpopulationsizes.
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A function is a beneficial effect that existed in anancestralpopulationfor an extended period of evolutionary time, and hence is a cause of the evolution of the adaptation.
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A missing factor from these experiments is any genetic marker in order to establish that adaptation represents selection from a polymorphicancestralpopulation, and to exclude any heritable epigenetic mechanism.
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Compared with theancestralpopulation, however, crossbreds have a very limited mean increase in viability at low levels of inbreeding, although their number of lethal equivalents is lower.
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Sequences from different loci share the same species divergence time, while their coalescent times in theancestralpopulationvary according to the population size of the ancestral species.
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The first step consists in a description of anancestralpopulationof organisms.
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Doana lynxes have differentiated more from theancestralpopulationas a result of their longer isolation and lower population size.
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First, the so-called founder effect occurs when founder populations bring only a subset of the genetic variation from theirancestralpopulation.
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All modern humans share the same origin from this singleancestralpopulation.
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In an admixed population, these causal variants will occur more frequently on chromosomal segments inherited from one or anotherancestralpopulation.
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A new and more flexible hominin population could have come back to the old niche and replace theancestralpopulation.
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When anancestralpopulationextends its range around a geographical barrier and differentiates (despite low-level gene flow), reproductive isolation occurs between terminal populations.
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