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Preferred term

founder effect

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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

Entry terms

  • founder effects
  • founders effect
  • founders effective

Scope note

  • MS Academic Keywords

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/msa0473

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