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Genetic effective size of a wild primate population: influence of current and historical demography.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Apr 2002
Storz Jay F, Ramakrishnan Uma, Alberts Susan C
Abstract excerpt
A comprehensive assessment of the determinants of effective population size (N(e)) requires estimates of variance in lifetime reproductive success and past changes in census numbers. For natural populations, such information can be best obtained by combining longitudinal data on individual life histories and genetic marker-based inferences of demographic history. Independent estimates of the variance effective...
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