Recent Examples on the WebIn a panmictic hybrid population LD will decay due to recombination, which breaks apart the distinctive allelic associations inherited from the parental populations.—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 23 Nov. 2010 Overall estimates of genetic diversity and differentiation among populations confirm the biogeographic hypothesis that large panmictic oceanic populations have repeatedly given rise to phenotypically divergent freshwater populations.—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2010
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