BioConcepts

gamodemeGamodem (ger.)

• A more or less isolated breeding community of organisms. (Merriam Webster 2011)
  category population

  1939

  Gamodeme: a deme forming a more or less isolated local interbreeding community.

  Gilmour, J.S.L. & Gregor, J.W. (1939). Demes: a suggested new terminology. Nature 144, 333.

  1954

  gamodeme: a deme composed of individuals which are so situated spatially and temporally that, within the limits of the breeding system, all can interbreed.

  Gilmour, J.S.L. & Heslop-Harrison, J. (1954). The deme terminology and the units of micro-evolutionary change. Genetica 27, 147-161: 153.

  1982

  gamodeme An assemblage of individuals forming a relatively isolated naturally interbreeding population.

  Lincoln, R.J., Boxshall, G.A. & Clark, P.F. (1982). A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics: 98.