Founder effect
The establishment of a new population by a few original founders (in an extreme case, by a single fertilized female) which carry only a small fraction of the total genetic variation of the parental population Ernst Mayr, 1963. The result is that a given allele, gene, chromosome, or part of a chromosome found in members of the population can be traced back to one ancestral individual.
Founder effect The establishment of a new population by a few original founders (in an extreme case, by a single fertilized female) which carry only a small fraction of the total genetic variation of the parental population Ernst Mayr, 1963. The result is that a given allele, gene, chromosome, or part of a chromosome found..
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