The phrase "attractive populations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing demographics, marketing, or ecology, where certain groups are considered appealing or desirable for various reasons.
Example: "The study focused on attractive populations of urban wildlife that thrive in city environments."
Alternatives: "desirable groups" or "appealing demographics".
Pancreatic acinar cells represent an alternative attractive population for exocrine-to-endocrine transdifferentiation owing to their abundance and potential for plasticity.
An attractive population would be consanguineous healthy couples with a history of recurrent abortion or fetal loss (especially when they have at least one healthy child as this can eliminate a lot of maternal causes of recurrent pregnancy loss) to increase the odds of finding such mutations.
To date, this promise has not been maintained, despite the appearance of new attractive cell populations for grafting, such as neural stem cells.
Throughout history dictators were attractive to populations in time of change.
Mesenchymal progenitor cells (MPCs) represent an attractive cell population for bone tissue engineering.
Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) represent an attractive cell population for tissue engineering purposes.
Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSC) represent an attractive cell population for tissue engineering purposes.
The basin is rich in mineral resources, forests, and soil fertility that favour economic development and make the La Plata basin a region that is attractive to population.
However, nuclear sequences are often not as attractive for population genetic studies as they generally have much lower mutation rates than microsatellite loci and consequently are less variable.
The high levels of allelic variation, codominant inheritance, and ease of analysis have made these markers attractive for population genetics, genome mapping, pedigree studies, and forensic analyses (Wright and Bentzen, 1994; Ellegren, 2000).
