Journal article
The Effect of Nonindependent Mate Pairing on the Effective Population Size
Abstract
The effective population size (N(e)) quantifies the effectiveness of genetic drift in finite populations. When generations overlap, theoretical expectations for N(e) typically assume that the sampling of offspring genotypes from a given individual is independent among successive breeding events, even though this is not true in many species, including humans. To explore the effects on N(e) of nonindependent mate pairing across breeding events, …
Authors
Evans BJ; Charlesworth B
Journal
Genetics, Vol. 193, No. 2, pp. 545–556
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date
February 1, 2013
DOI
10.1534/genetics.112.146258
ISSN
0016-6731