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deme

[dēm]
(ecology)
A local population in which the individuals freely interbreed among themselves but not with those of other demes.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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AMOVA analyses based on the five demes retrieved by the BAPs analysis (Table 1) indicated that 87.47% of the variation was due to differences among the demes, and 12.53% within the demes, with a highly significant (p = 0.00000) [F.sub.ST] value of 0.87 (Table 2).
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The companies are National Marine Dredging Company of the UAE; Royal Boskalis Westminster and Van Oord, both based in the Netherlands; Jan de Nul Group and Deme Group, both of Belgium; and US-based Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company.
I collected ten seed families (hereafter genotypes) from each deme, corresponding to the largest cones in each deme.
Under an agreement, CFE will take full control of Belgian dredging and marine engineering firm Dredging Environmental & Marine Engineering NV (DEME) after buying the 50% stake it did not already own from AvH in exchange for 12.2m newly issued CFE shares at a price of EUR45.00 (USD60.90) apiece, or for some EUR550m.
Summary: The contract to dredge a 20 km (13 mile) approach channel for a 27 billion riyal new port project was awarded to Middle East Dredging Co (MEDCO), set up by Qatar's United Development Co, state-runQatar Holding, and Belgian dredging group DEME, the statement added.
Libya and Senegal - who equalised on the night through Deme N'Diaye - both went out, with much-fancied Senegal going home without picking up a single point.