The Conversation on MSN12 天
Gene pools are getting dangerously shallow for many species. Researchers find five ways to help
Before species go extinct, their populations often shrink and become isolated. Healthy populations tend to have a large gene ...
Humans and Neanderthals only had sex for a brief period, but it still fundamentally changed ...
"This study gives us the most accurate picture showing how some Neanderthals joined into the modern human gene pool, and then ...
PBS8 年
Genetic Drift and the Founder Effect:
As in the example of human diseases, genetically determined traits that would ordinarily be uncommon in the overall gene pool might crop up with distressing frequency in a small subset of that pool.
Nature12 年
The Variety of Genes in the Gene Pool Can Be Quantified within a Population
Most populations have some degree of variation in their gene pools. By measuring the amount of genetic variation in a population, scientists can begin to make predictions about how genetic ...
Nature4 年
The concept of a gene pool includes multiple alleles in a group of organisms.
A gene pool is the collective set of genes found across all organisms in a population. In this page, you will learn about variation within gene pools, as well as the ways in which this variation ...