Sentence examples for geographically isolated population from inspiring English sources

They argue that the amount of DNA shared between modern Eurasian humans and Neanderthals - estimated at between 1-4% - can be explained if both arose from a geographically isolated population, most likely in North Africa, which shared a common ancestor around 300-350 thousand years ago.

In a 1978 paper reviewing the species, Alf Salkin coined the term topodeme to indicate a geographically isolated population of plants, derived from the Ancient Greek words topos "place" and deme "people" or "county (population)".

Osprey Reef is an oceanic seamount surrounded by 2000 m depths and harbors a geographically isolated population of N.pompilius.

The population is considered a geographically isolated population derived from thousands of ancestors with m = n = 20.

We recently identified a geographically isolated population of cynomolgus macaques from the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius (MCM) that have extremely limited MHC diversity [35].

Presl) F.K. Mey., from a first generation accession from a geographically isolated population in Saint Laurent Le Minier, southern France (supplied by Guy Delmot, Saint Laurent le Minier, France, 43°55'48″ N, 3°40'12″ E) [30].

Current knowledge of Nautilus ecology is gleaned through an amalgamation of studies of life history and demographic parameters, using a range of methods and investigating different species, geographic morphs and geographically isolated populations of Nautilus.

In D. mojavensis, epicuticular CHCs serve as contact pheromones that mediate sexual isolation between geographically isolated populations [9], [28], [29], and species-specific CHC differences have been described [19].

Another possibility is that within populations, stochastic changes in traits driven by processes such as sexual selection promote reproductive isolation between geographically isolated populations where divergent natural selection is not acting [ 28, 29].

Infectious diseases could be transmitted from geographically isolated populations to more densely populated communities and, conversely, from urban populations to susceptible, isolated populations Today the number of people who travel for work, leisure, and adventure has exponentially increased, and global mobility contributes to the spread of sexually transmitted infections.

These studies have found that the most recent speciation events have occurred between geographically isolated populations inhabiting the same habitat type, suggesting that allopatric isolation through vicariance has been a dominant speciation mechanism [ 1, 3, 6, 9].