Natural selection, genetic drift and gene flow do not act in isolation ... eds. Conservation Biology: Evolution in Action. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008. Darwin, C.

The founder effect is an extreme example of "genetic drift." Genes occurring at a certain frequency in the larger population will occur at a different frequency -- more or less often -- in a ...

Evolutionary biology is the study of this process, which can occur through mechanisms including natural selection, sexual selection and genetic drift. CSP-H genes (encoding cold shock proteins ...

Vagheesh Narasimhan, lead researcher, assistant professor of integrative biology and statistics and ... ancient adaptation signals can be masked by genetic drift-;random fluctuations in the ...