Wednesday, 25 July 2018

evolution - Effect of sex-ratio on the effective population size


As stated on this wikipedia article, the effective population size Ne when the sex ratio differs from 12 is


Ne=4NmNfNm+Nf


I understand the biased sex-ratio decreases the effective population size and the formula is quite simple. However, I would fail to prove that this formula is right.


Can you demonstrate to me that Ne=4NmNfNm+Nf is true?




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