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The effective number of a population that varies cyclically in size. I. Discrete generations.
Mathematical biosciences - 1 Jul 2000
Wang Y, Pollak E
Abstract excerpt
We consider a dioecious population having numbers of males and females that vary over time in cycles of length k. It is shown that if k is small in comparison with the numbers of males and females in any generation of the cycle, the effective population number (or size), N(e), is approximately equal to the harmonic mean of the effective population sizes during any given cycle. This result holds whether the locus...
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