Dobzhansky

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 (dŭb-zhăn′skē), Theodosius Grigorevich 1900-1975.
Russian-born American biologist whose synthesis of population genetics with natural history in Genetics and the Origin of Species (1937), based on his studies of fruit flies in the wild, is considered a milestone in the development of modern evolutionary biology.
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Dobzhansky

(dɒbˈʒænskɪ)
n
(Biography) Theodosius. 1900–75, US biologist, born in Russia, noted for work on evolution and genetic variation
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Hybrid animals often have lower fitness than individuals of their parent species (Harrison 1993 and references therein) as a result of incompatible genetic combinations, such as Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibilities (Dobzhansky 1937, Muller 1942, Bolnick and Near 2005), mismatched chromosomes (Shaw and Wilkinson 1980, Searle 1993), incompatible cellular organelles (e.g.
Drawing on the work of evolutionary biologist and geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky, the author considers parallels between human evolution and the evolution of cancer cells, especially in light of longer human life spans.
Chernyaeva is a senior researcher at Theodosios Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics at St.
O'Brien, an expert on DNA fingerprinting and chief scientific officer of the Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics at St.
bandeirantorum (Dobzhansky & Pavan, 1943) the authors did not describe the male terminalia.
mediopunctata (Dobzhansky and Pavan, 1943), a closely related species of the tripunctata group, in two areas of Guarapuava/PR, PMA (0.5385) and Fazenda Brandalise (0.5062).
He was mentioned in Theodosius Dobzhansky's groundbreaking "Genetics and the Origin of Species."
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