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The effective number of a population that varies cyclically in size. II. Overlapping generations.
Mathematical biosciences - 1 Jan 2000
Wang Yufeng, Pollak Edward
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We consider haploid and dioecious age-structured populations that vary over time in cycles of length k. Results are obtained for both autosomal and sex-linked loci if the population is dioecious. It is assumed that k is small in comparison with numbers of haploid individuals (or of numbers of males and females) in any generation of a cycle. The inbreeding effective population size N(e) is then approximately given...
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