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In a panmictic hybrid population LD will decay due to recombination, which breaks apart the distinctive allelic associations inherited from the parental populations.
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Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 23 Nov. 2010
Overall estimates of genetic diversity and differentiation among populations confirm the biogeographic hypothesis that large panmictic oceanic populations have repeatedly given rise to phenotypically divergent freshwater populations.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2010
Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 23 Nov. 2010
Overall estimates of genetic diversity and differentiation among populations confirm the biogeographic hypothesis that large panmictic oceanic populations have repeatedly given rise to phenotypically divergent freshwater populations.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2010
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Word History
Etymology
pan- + Greek miktos, verbal of mignynai to mix
First Known Use
1933, in the meaning defined above
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panmictic
adjective
pan·mic·tic
(ˈ)pan-ˈmik-tik 
: of, relating to, or exhibiting panmixia
a panmictic population
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