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genetic distance [jə¦ned·ik ′dis·təns] (genetics) A measure of the allelic substitutions per locus that have occurred during the separate evolution of two populations or species. The distance between linked genes in terms of recombination frequency or map units. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Now we can get some idea of what the real relationship is between physical distance and genetic distance," Arnheim says. Wacziarg's most recent work relates genetic distance between populations to differences in economic outcomes, such as their income per capita, to better understand the process by which innovations diffuse from one culture to the next. Nucleotide sequences were aligned with respective hantavirus sequences retrieved from GenBank; genetic distances were measured by the neighbor-joining method, and phylogenetic trees were constructed by using PHYLIP (Phylogeny Inference Package by J. |
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