Counter-intuitive property of effective population size (original) (raw)

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CONSIDER an organism with both autosomal and X-linked loci. The effective population sizes for an autosomal (_N_ea) and an X-linked (_N_es) locus can be shown1 to be where M and F are, respectively, the numbers of reproducing males and females in a random-mating population.

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CROZIER, R. Counter-intuitive property of effective population size.Nature 262, 384 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/262384a0

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• Received: 15 March 1976
• Accepted: 01 June 1976
• Published: 01 July 1976
• Issue Date: 29 July 1976
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/262384a0

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