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Genetic Speciation

"Genetic Speciation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The splitting of an ancestral species into daughter species that coexist in time (King, Dictionary of Genetics, 6th ed). Causal factors may include geographic isolation, HABITAT geometry, migration, REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION, random GENETIC DRIFT and MUTATION.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Genetic Speciation" by people in this website by year, and whether "Genetic Speciation" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 103 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 15 publications in 2008
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