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The concept of effective population size loses its meaning in the context of optimal management of diversity using molecular markers.
Journal of animal breeding and genetics = Zeitschrift fur Tierzuchtung und Zuchtungsbiologie - 1 Jul 2020
Toro Miguel A, Villanueva Beatriz, Fernández Jesús
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Effective population size is a key parameter in conservation genetics. In the management of conservation programs using pedigree information, there is a consensus that the optimal method for maximizing effective population size is to calculate the contribution of each potential parent (the number of offspring that each individual leaves to the next generation) by minimizing the global pedigree-based coancestry...
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