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Effective sizes for subdivided populations.
Genetics - 1 Dec 1993
Chesser R K, Rhodes O E, Sugg D W, Schnabel A
Abstract excerpt
Many derivations of effective population sizes have been suggested in the literature; however, few account for the breeding structure and none can readily be expanded to subdivided populations. Breeding structures influence gene correlations through their effects on the number of breeding individuals of each sex, the mean number of progeny per female, and the variance in the number of progeny produced by males...
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