Article: Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
Biology;      700+ words ...Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium The Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium is the fundamental...under which allele frequencies are expected...or rare.) Allele Frequencies A significant...value of the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium equation...then the ...

Article: Genetic Drift
Genetics;      700+ words ......is a principal force in evolution. Allele Frequencies Different forms of a gene are called...be over time. In small populations allele frequencies are likely to change rapidly and...possible. To see how such events affect allele frequencies, imagine a population that contains...

Article: Allozyme and RAPD variation in the eastern Pacific yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares).
Fishery Bulletin;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......pairwise comparisons of allozyme allele frequencies among the ten samples showed significant...No significant divergence in RAPD allele frequencies was observed among samples. Weir...offshore samples revealed differences of allele frequencies at the Gpi-[F.sup.*] locus (P<...

Article: genetic polymorphism
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences;      120 words ......for by recurrent mutation . Such occurrences are generally long-term. Genetic polymorphism may be balanced (such that allele frequencies are in equilibrium with one another at a given locus ), or transient (such that a mutation is spreading through the population...

Article: Gene Flow
Genetics;      629 words ......a subset of individuals reproduce, allele frequencies change from generation to generation...to estimate gene flow by comparing allele frequencies. By determining allele frequencies in two different populations, the...

Article: Pyrosequencing AB Announces Major Improvement in Efficiency for Allele Frequency Studies.
Business Wire;  March 15, 2001 ;     700+ words ......cells. The ability to analyze allele frequencies in samples pooled from 100...automatic quantification of allele frequencies in pooled DNA samples, including automatic calculation of allele frequencies and calculation of statistics...

Article: Modern Synthesis
Animal Sciences;      700+ words ......definition of evolution as "changes in allele frequencies within populations , " thus emphasizing...identified as contributing to changes in allele frequencies. These are random genetic drift...drift describes random changes in allele frequencies in a population. It is particularly...

Article: genetic drift
A Dictionary of Biology;      104 words ......generations due to sampling error in the gametes. Each new generation differs from its parental generation with regard to allele frequencies simply because of random variation in the distribution of gametes. Over time, this may lead to certain alleles becoming...

Article: The contribution of egg-bearing female American lobster (Homarus americanus) populations to lobster larvae collected in Long Island Sound by comparison of microsatellite allele frequencies.
Journal of Shellfish Research;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......lobsters by comparison of microsatellite allele frequencies. Egg-bearing female lobsters were...LIS. Differences in microsatellite allele frequencies were used to assign larvae to female...specific stocks by differences in allele frequencies was through the use of the conditional...

Article: Allozyme identification of mussels (Bivalvia: Mytilus) on the pacific coast of South America.
Journal of Shellfish Research;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......and Est-D. The locus Lap-1 showed allele frequencies similar to those of M. edulis, whereas...as principal component analysis on allele frequencies and factorial correspondence analysis...having particular and characteristic allele frequencies. KEY WORDS: allozyme polymorphisms...

Article: Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium
A Dictionary of Biology;      167 words ......heterozygous) individuals, and q 2 = frequency of aa (homozygous recessive) individuals. The equation can be used to calculate allele frequencies if the numbers of homozygous recessive individuals in the population is known. The equation and the equilibrium are named...

Article: Population structure of Fraser River chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha): an analysis using microsatellite DNA markers.(Statistical Data Included)
Fishery Bulletin;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......partitioned among populations. We detected significantly different allele frequencies among populations within regional groupings and temporal stability in allele frequencies in populations for which multiple years of samples were analyzed...

Article: Founder Effect
Genetics;      700+ words ......the larger population. As the new population grows, the allele frequencies will usually continue to reflect the original small group...determining the genetic makeup of subsequent generations, and allele frequencies may fluctuate. For example, consider an extreme situation...

Article: Population structure and variance effective size of red snapper (Lutianus campechanus) in the northern Gulf of Mexico *.
Fishery Bulletin;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......diversity ranged from 0.170 to 0.917. Tests of conformity to Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium expectations and of genotypic equilibrium between pairs...sub.eV) was estimated from the temporal variance in allele frequencies by using a maximum-likelihood method. Estimates of...