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The Idiot's Guide to Effective Population Size.

Molecular ecology - 1 Dec 2025

Waples Robin S

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This is a reference manual for the elegant, yet hideously complex concept of effective population size (Ne), inspired by a classic, self-published manual of automotive repair 'for the compleat idiot'. The Guide is timely, given the recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, where 196 Parties committed to tracking genetic diversity-and estimating Ne-for all species. Ne is a human construct, but a...

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Population Density
Genetics, Population
Genetic Variation
Genomics
Computational Biology
Biodiversity
Genetic Markers

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PMID: 39925199
DOI: 10.1111/mec.17670

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