Sentence examples for contiguous populations from inspiring English sources

In small, fragmented populations, genetic variation can become depleted more quickly than in larger, more contiguous populations.

A ring species consists of a geographic ring of populations such that organisms in contiguous populations can successfully mate, but organisms in populations at distant links in the ring cannot successfully mate.

Sequences were obtained specifically from the unfused 4th chromosome in four different samples of D. americana from contiguous populations representing a wide spectrum in the frequency of the X-4 fusion.

In contrast, movement of mosquitoes between contiguous populations should erode any potential genetic divergence, resulting in homogenized gene pools (Hartl and Clark 2006).

The genetic differentiation between historical western and southern Texas was analogous to contiguous populations of mountain lions in western North America (Sinclair et al. 2001).

The study of microsatellites [ 20] has shown a correlation between genetic and geographic distance between populations, denoting a genetic flow among contiguous populations.

Annual and perennial wild rice in various parts of Asia can be found in the same area [33] and sometimes at the same site as part of a contiguous population ([33]; first author's personal observations in Cambodia, India and Myanmar).

Thus, the actions of industrial-age humans may have been the critical factor in the reciprocal isolation of Caspian and Amur tigers from what was likely a single contiguous population.

Our observation that there was a species-specific global template common to songs at both locations probably reflects the fact that T. brasiliensis is a genetically contiguous population that migrates across a broad geographical range [20].

Such studies could involve the comparison of flight ability, thermal tolerance and PGI and PGM genotypes among specimens from Wilpena Pound, Carnarvon Gorge, the contiguous population, Tasmania, and Western Australia.

We defined the population at risk as the population of the two neighboring towns since this area represented the smallest geographically contiguous population that included all case-patients.