A "subpopulation" refers to a smaller group within a larger population that has distinctive characteristics or differences compared to the rest of the population. Full definition
As I discussed in my last post, the Gulf of Boothia subpopulation in the central Canadian Arctic has the highest density of polar bears anywhere in the world. (polarbearscience.com)
Over the recent years, immense progress has been made in defining individual CD4 T cell subpopulations with distinct functional and developmental properties. (ragoninstitute.org)
The ability to map «epigenomes» using such a small number of cells will be valuable to cancer research, since the epigenetic landscape is dramatically rearranged in cancer and contributes to phenomena driven by small subpopulations of cells, such as drug resistance and metastasis. (sciencedaily.com)