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    genetics, gene flow (also known as migration and allele flow) is the transfer of genetic material from one population to another. If the rate of gene flow is...
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    Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) or lateral gene transfer (LGT) is the movement of genetic material between organisms other than by the ("vertical") transmission...
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  • hindered the flow of plant genes. Gene flow is the exchange of genes between populations or species, breaking down the structure. Examples of gene flow within...
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  • four different processes: mutation, selection (natural and artificial), gene flow and genetic drift. This change happens over a relatively short (in evolutionary...
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  • the human-chimpanzee split, some 5.5 million years ago, at a time when gene flow may still have been ongoing. It has several shared characteristics with...
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    archaeological and genetic data suggest that long-term bidirectional gene flow between wild and domestic stocks – including donkeys, horses, New and...
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    Evolution (section Gene flow)
    mutations in the genome, reshuffling of genes through sexual reproduction and migration between populations (gene flow). Despite the constant introduction...
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    drift. Gene flow, often by migration, is the movement of genetic material (for example by pollen in the wind, or the migration of a bird). Gene flow can...
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    speculum due to either the retention of ancestral genetic material or due to gene flow from the Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos). Among North American members of...
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    is a term for uncontrolled gene flow into wild populations. It is defined as "the dispersal of contaminated altered genes from genetically engineered...
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  • Cline (biology) (redirect from Gene cline)
    opposing forces of selection and gene flow; even if selection against heterozygotes is great, if there is some degree of gene flow between the two populations...
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    two forces of evolution that act on mate choice: natural selection and gene flow. Selection acts as the main driver of reinforcement as it selects against...
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    types of molecular genes: protein-coding genes and non-coding genes. During gene expression (the synthesis of RNA or protein from a gene), DNA is first copied...
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    the observed excess of genetic similarity is best explained by recent gene flow from Neanderthals to modern humans after the migration out of Africa....
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    experiments are not possible. When hybridisation permits substantial gene flow between species. In ring species, when members of adjacent populations...
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    recent gene flow from India into Australia. The study authors sequenced 13 Aboriginal Australian Y chromosomes using recent advances in gene sequencing...
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  • Conservation biology Founder effect Gene flow Genetic drift Small population size Australian Grains Genebank "Gene pool | genetics | Britannica". Graham...
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  • locus. In natural populations natural selection (adaptation mechanism), gene flow, and mutation combine to change allele frequencies across generations...
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    B. pensylvanicus had greater population structure, indicating reduced gene flow and dispersal among populations. It was found that genetic diversity has...
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  • male gene flow from groups with more ANI relatedness into ones with less, or female gene flow in the reverse direction. However, extensive female gene flow...
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    isolated and more likely to experience gene flow from populations occupying fish-free habitats; this suggests that gene flow may hinder local adaptation of salamander...
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    speciation', whereby gene flow is enabled following the polyploidy event, even between lineages that previously experienced no gene flow as diploids. This...
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    a species. In this case, divergence is facilitated by the absence of gene flow. Parapatric speciation is the evolution of geographically adjacent populations...
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  • role gene flow plays in local adaptation is complex because gene flow can reduce the likelihood of local adaptation in a population since gene flow is genetic...
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    continuing to exchange genes. This mode of speciation has three distinguishing characteristics: 1) mating occurs non-randomly, 2) gene flow occurs unequally...
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    (2014). "Bears in a Forest of Gene Trees: Phylogenetic Inference is Complicated by Incomplete Lineage Sorting and Gene Flow". Molecular Biology and Evolution...
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    effect on small populations than large ones. Gene flow: Gene flow is the transfer of genetic material from the gene pool of one population to another. In a...
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    generations of offspring. Genetic diversity remains lower, increasing only when gene flow from another population occurs or very slowly increasing with time as...
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  • genetic history of the people of North Africa. The most important source of gene flow to North Africa from the Neolithic Era onwards was from Western Asia,...
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    similarity to the grey wolf is the result of substantial dog-into-wolf gene flow, with the modern grey wolf being the dog's nearest living relative. An...
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