Shrews have been documented to travel across frozen lakes and establish populations on previously uninhabited islands; thus, the shrews have a limited gene pool. If this limited gene pool has allele frequencies that are very different from the allele frequencies found in the original population, then this would be an example of

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Deborah Reed

12 April, 19:19

Shrews have been documented to travel across frozen lakes and establish populations on previously uninhabited islands; thus, the shrews have a limited gene pool. If this limited gene pool has allele frequencies that are very different from the allele frequencies found in the original population, then this would be an example of

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Jared Luna · Answer 1

Founder effect

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when a new population is established by a few number of individuals and a loss of genetic variation from the original population is noticed, this phenomenon is termed founder effect