"founder effect" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: founder effects [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} founder effect (plural founder effects)
  1. (genetics, evolutionary theory) A reduction in genetic diversity resulting when a population is descended from a small number of colonising ancestors. Categories (topical): Evolutionary theory, Genetics Translations (lessening of genetic variation when the entire population descends from a small number of founders): تَأْثِير المُؤَسِّس (taʔṯīr al-muʔassis) [masculine] (Arabic), تَأْثِير المُؤَسَّسَة (taʔṯīr al-muʔassasa) [masculine] (Arabic), 奠基者效應 (Chinese Mandarin), 奠基者效应 (diànjīzhěxiàoyìng) (Chinese Mandarin), perustajavaikutus (Finnish), effet fondateur [masculine] (French), Gründereffekt [masculine] (German), efekt założyciela [masculine] (Polish), efeito fundador [masculine] (Portuguese), efeito do fundador [masculine] (Portuguese), эффе́кт основа́теля (effékt osnovátelja) [masculine] (Russian), ефекат оснивача [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), efekat osnivača [Latin, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), efecto fundador [masculine] (Spanish), grundareffekt [common-gender] (Swedish)

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