The effective population size (Ne) is size of an idealised population would experience the same rate of genetic drift or increase in inbreeding as in...

In population genetics and population ecology, population size (usually denoted N) is a countable quantity representing the number of individual organisms...

effective population), one will become extinct within one generation just because they are all the same sex. If the population remains at this size for...

of 4169 individuals (95% CI = 3577–5129)." Effective population size Inbreeding depression Human population Metapopulation Rescue effect Holsinger, Kent...

000 years ago, an effective population size of the order of 10,000 to 30,000 individuals has been estimated, with an actual "census population" of early Homo...

separations occur? What was the effective population size of the common ancestor before the split? Are there traces of population structure (subpopulations)...

A population bottleneck or genetic bottleneck is a sharp reduction in the size of a population due to environmental events such as famines, earthquakes...

Effective population size is a measurement of the loss of genetic diversity. Multiple populations have been found to have an effective population size...

fixation is also influenced by population size changes. For growing populations, selection coefficients are more effective. This means that beneficial alleles...

species with large effective population sizes will have highly streamlined, efficient genetic systems, while those with small population sizes will have bloated...