Sentences with phrase «much gene flow»

So how much gene flow is there between plant populations?

Elephants were just too mobile; too much gene flow had occurred, especially between East and South African elephants, to preserve distinctive genetic signatures.

«There won't be as much gene flow between them and also, if a lot of areas they depend on for food are being wiped out, we will see primates foraging on crops and increasing human - primate conflict in some of these areas,» she says.

Not exact matches

Back when life first took hold, genes flowed around freely; genetic sequences skipped around from organism to organism in much the way they may soon on the Internet.

When two copies of the altered hemoglobin gene are present, they cause the shape of the hemoglobin to change so much that the «sickled» blood cells don't flow freely in the blood vessels, causing excruciating pain.

Not only was intra-specific gene flow among populations seen to be minimal at that time, but, somewhat incongruously, inter-specific hybridization, or the movement of genes among species, was seen to be a much larger force in evolution than intra-specific allele movement.

I think the gene flow [between elephant populations] has occurred so recently, there's not much of a prospect of establishing different genotypes.»