NALT

Preferred term

founder effect

Topic

The principle that when a small sample of a larger population establishes itself as a newly isolated entity, its gene pool carries only a fraction of the genetic diversity represented in the parental population. The evolutionary fates of the parental and derived populations are thus likely to be set along different pathways because the different evolutionary pressures in the different areas occupied by the two populations will operate on different gene pools.

population genetics

founder population
population subdivision

Field 001 in MARC Authority Format

15717

Spanish

efecto fundador

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/41313

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Created 1/19/06, last modified 9/29/15