0 present participle of segregate
2 to keep one group of people apart from another and treat them differently, especially because of race, sex, or religion:
3 (of pairs of alleles (= different forms of the same gene)) to separate during meiosis (= the cell division that happens as part of the process of producing young animals or plants) and pass separately to separate gametes (= reproductive cells):
Disruption of the spindle can cause chromosomes to segregate abnormally at either of the two meiotic divisions.
In this way, every allele segregating in each family could be unambiguously identified.
Critical values are determined from 100 000 panmictic simulations conditional on the same sample size and number of segregating sites.
Haplotype tests using coalescent simulations conditional on the number of segregating sites.
The rank of the number of segregating sites was positively associated with fitness in each environment.
If we wish to study genetic variation for fitness then we must begin with the simplest possible scenario : two segregating genomes.
This is reasonably attained with six to ten segregating alleles, though we have found weak dependencies up through as many as 50 alleles.
We assume that all mutations segregating in the population are equally deleterious and have equivalent fitness effects in heterozygotes.
Natural selection acting upon segregating genotypes leads to higher fitness by identifying individuals that possess the ideal combinations of these three components of fitness.
