Sentences with phrase «small founder»

The results confirm that the breed has lost considerable genetic diversity through such things as small founder population and artificial genetic bottlenecks resulting from highly focused selection for specific desired physical traits.

This indicated that the over-representation of certain haplotypes occurred at the onset of breed creation as a result of small founder numbers, and / or that it was associated with artificial genetic bottlenecks that were subsequently masked by a return to random selection.

The study reveals that the breed has lost considerable genetic diversity through such things as small founder population and artificial genetic bottlenecks resulting from highly focused selection for specific desired physical traits.

«This suggests rapid, recent growth from a very small founder population,» Cox says.

Populations that have lost genetic diversity through small founder numbers and artificial genetic bottlenecks are more likely to accumulate deleterious traits [33, 52].

Rather, Jobling says, this characteristic could have arisen by mutation in a small founder population and then simply spread as this population migrated to other parts of the world.