title: Genetic difference and selection in domestic cat populations of the United Kingdom and former British colonies.
abstract: Domestic cat populations of former British colonies provide a unique set of data with which to evaluate the historical/immigration hypothesis because such populations are believed to sample an evolving parental United Kingdom stock at various times over the last three centuries. A regression of f coefficients upon separation time between founding populations, as inferred from historical records, is statistically significant. Selection is indicated as the mechanism underlying allele frequency change.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Sciences, Lesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
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authors.lastname: Blumenberg