BioConcepts

population geneticsPopulationsgenetik (ger.)

• The branch of genetics that deals mathematically with the distribution of and change in gene frequencies in populations from one generation to another. (OED 2011)
  category population

  1938

  Much new material has been added on salivary gland chromosomes, cytoplasmic inheritance, population genetics, inbreeding, heterosis.

  Anonymus (1938). Advertisement: Sinnott, E.W. & Dunn, L.C. (1939). Principles of Genetics. Science 88, 9a.

  1939

  The chief progress [in genetics] has resulted from improvements in techniques […]. All these methods have contributed primarily to developmental or physiological genetics and to evolutionary or population genetics, two fields which are now receiving particular emphasis.

  Sinnott, E.W. & Dunn, L.C. (1939). Principles of Genetics, 3rd ed.: vii. 

  1941

  Our knowledge of the frequency of male sterility in plant populations and the extent of cytoplasmic differentiation as a cause of it is extremely meagre. These frequencies, which are of considerable importance from the point of view of popu-lation genetics, can be determined (i) by counting wild populations, and (2) by examining seedlings derived from seed collected from the wild.

  Lewis, D. (1941). Male sterility in natural populations of hermaphrodite plants. New Phytol. 40, 56-63: 61.

  1941

  Problems that involve consideration of the various genetic patterns found among related populations have been termed “population genetics”

  Cross, E.C. (1941). Colour Phases of the Red Fox (Vulpes fulva) in Ontario. J. Mammalogy 22, 25-39: 38.

  1944

  population genetics

  Simpson, G.G. (1944). Tempo and Mode in Evolution: xvi.

  1949

  population genetics

  Stern, C. (1949). Principles of Human Genetics: 168.

  1982

  population genetics The study of gene frequencies and selection pressures in populations.

  Lincoln, R.J., Boxshall, G.A. & Clark, P.F. (1982). A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics: 200.