Nearly unbiased estimator of contemporary Ne/N based on kinship relationships

Abstract This study develops a nearly unbiased estimator of the ratio of the contemporary effective mother size to the census size in a population, as a proxy of the ratio of contemporary effective size (or effective breeding size) to census size (Ne/N or Nb/N). The proposed estimator is based on bo...

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Main Author: Tetsuya Akita
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-10-01
Series:Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6421