Sentence examples for genetic collapse from inspiring English sources

He seized power thanks to the political and genetic collapse of the main branch of the family.

Lacking natural predators, and trapped by fences that jut into the choppy Atlantic, the herd is becoming so inbred that its advocates fear a genetic collapse in mere generations.

This diversity loss appears to have been driven by a combination of negative population growth combined with the genetic collapse of coexisting species through speciation reversal.

The loss of trophic separation among whitefish forms therefore entails a loss of genetic separation: As more and more individuals share the same resource they also hybridize during spawning which leads to the genetic collapse of whitefish forms into a monomorphic hybrid swarm (Seehausen 2000; Seehausen et al. 2006).

Prior to mapping, the genetic map was collapsed to retain only markers that contained unique linkage information in the subset of 43 lines (i.e., SNPs at the same map position were removed) leaving 436 biallelic markers.

Fears about the spread of biological weapons were deepened by the rise of terrorism against Americans, the great strides in genetic engineering and the collapse of the Soviet Union, which left thousands of scientists skilled in biological warfare unemployed, penniless and vulnerable to recruitment.

In this manner, your offspring would suffer a collapse in genetic diversity far worse than any European royal faced.

In collapsing glomerulopathy, the visceral epithelial cells re-enter the cell cycle, as evidenced by KI-67 expression [ 7] and in a genetic mouse model of collapsing glomerulopathy, expression of cyclin D1 and reduced expression of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors such as p27 and p57 [ 8].

Additional consideration is given to the problem of gene-environment interactions and to testing whether certain genetic identifiers/categories may be collapsed into a smaller set of categories.

"We are currently investigating the genetic effects of the population collapse, and trying to establish whether the population collapse has resulted in loss of population genetic variation," said Dr Ujvari.

There may be an analogy in artificially introduced invasive ants, which displace native species by their ecological release and supercolonies (a manifestation of genetic homogeneity), only to suffer collapse of colonies attributed to lack of genetic diversity.