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Estimating effective paternity number in social insects and the effective number of alleles in a population.

Molecular ecology - 1 Nov 2003

Nielsen Rasmus, Tarpy David R, Reeve H Kern

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Estimating paternity and genetic relatedness is central to many empirical and theoretical studies of social insects. The two important measures of a queen's mating number are her actual number of mates and her effective number of mates. Estimating the effective number of mates is mathematically identical to the problem of estimating the effective number of alleles in population genetics, a common measure of...

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PMID: 14629394
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294x.2003.01994.x

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