Effective size of nonrandom mating populations.

doi:10.1093/genetics/130.4.909

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Effective size of nonrandom mating populations.

Genetics - 1 Apr 1992

Caballero A, Hill W G

Abstract excerpt

Nonrandom mating whereby parents are related is expected to cause a reduction in effective population size because their gene frequencies are correlated and this will increase the genetic drift. The published equation for the variance effective size, Ne, which includes the possibility of nonrando...

Topics

Breeding
Gene Frequency
Genetic Variation
Genetics, Population
Inbreeding
Models, Genetic
Models, Statistical
Population Density
Reproduction

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