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Monitoring the effective population size of a brown bear (Ursus arctos) population using new single-sample approaches.
Molecular ecology - 1 Feb 2012
Skrbinšek Tomaž, Jelenčič Maja, Waits Lisette, Kos Ivan, Jerina Klemen, Trontelj Peter
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The effective population size (N(e) ) could be the ideal parameter for monitoring populations of conservation concern as it conveniently summarizes both the evolutionary potential of the population and its sensitivity to genetic stochasticity. However, tracing its change through time is difficult in natural populations. We applied four new methods for estimating N(e) from a single sample of genotypes to trace...
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