Study of the patterns of genetic differentiation across landscapes, often involving intraspecific variation and the comparison of patterns across a range of different taxa in the same region (phylogen [..]

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having non-overlapping geographic ranges. Cf.

  A method of assigning individuals to the populations from which they were most likely to have originated (regardless of where they dispersed to or were sampled).  A web-based assignment calculator i [..]

Nonrandom mating systems in which like pairs with like. Cf.

A critical portion of any model of the genetic structure of populations or taxa. Most models make simplifying assumptions concerning drift, mutation or linearity that will be violated to some degree b [..]

chromosome other than a sex chromosome.

An initially derogatory term for the classical basis of population genetics founded by Sewall Wright, J.B.S. Haldane, and R.A. Fisher. Manipulation of counts of gene and

Reduction in population size that can have major influence on genetic variation because of the relationship between genetic drift and population size.