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Samples from subdivided populations yield biased estimates of effective size that overestimate the rate of loss of genetic variation.
Molecular ecology resources - 1 Jan 2014
Ryman Nils, Allendorf Fred W, Jorde Per Erik, Laikre Linda, Hössjer Ola
Abstract excerpt
Many empirical studies estimating effective population size apply the temporal method that provides an estimate of the variance effective size through the amount of temporal allele frequency change under the assumption that the study population is completely isolated. This assumption is frequently violated, and the magnitude of the resulting bias is generally unknown. We studied how gene flow affects estimates of...
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