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What is panmixia?

What is panmixia? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (ecology) A situation in which an individual is just as likely to mate with another randomly chosen individual as any other in the population
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It can be presumed that the average r2 value, particularly at larger inter-marker distances, reflects the extent of panmixia in a population.
It seems that all the admitted objections to degeneration by panmixia apply with equal402 force to germinal selection.
Chologaster is in a stage of panmixia as far as the eye is concerned.
Microsatellite markers revealed no particular departure from panmixia within each local population and a genetic structure consistent with isolation by distance.
The restriction of male parentage to a limited number of clones severely violates the panmixia assumption and could result in fertilization failure.
If the size of the effective breeding population is still greater, approaching panmixia in varying degrees, evolution will be slowed down considerably.

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