Preferred term
founder effect
Is replaced by
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
