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Small effective population size in the long-toed salamander.
Molecular ecology - 1 Oct 1999
Funk W C, Tallmon D A, Allendorf F W
Abstract excerpt
The effective population sizes (Ne) of six populations of the long-toed salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum) from Montana and Idaho, USA were estimated from allozyme data from samples collected in 1978, 1996 and 1997 using the temporal allele frequency method. Five of the six estimates ranged from 23 to 207 (mean = 123 +/- 79); one estimate was indistinguishable from infinity. In order to infer the actual Ne of...
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