Multiple Choice
Shrews have been documented to travel across frozen lakes and establish populations on previously uninhabited islands. The low level of genetic diversity in the new populations is the result of
A) the founder effect.
B) assortative mating.
C) coevolution.
D) genetic drift.
E) a population bottleneck.
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