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Preferred term

founder effect

Definition

[Henderson's] genetic differences between an original population and an isolated offshoot due to alleles in the small number of founder members of the new population being unrepresentative of the alleles in the original population as a whole.

Broader concept

genetics

Scope note

MS Academic Keywords

Creator

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2195-3997

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/21616

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Created 8/3/16, last modified 6/18/18

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