Table 4 . Estimates of the variation of N_e in 10 eukaryotic species.

	Free recombination		No recombination
Species	σμ (SD)	${\sigma }_{N_{\text{e}}}$ (SD)	σμ (SD)	${\sigma }_{N_{\text{e}}}$ (SD)
D. melanogaster	0.370 (0.024)	0.743 (0.048)	0.372 (0.024)	0.516 (0.072)
H. sapiens	0.522 (0.021)	0.682 (0.07)	0.52 (0.02)	0.578 (0.11)
M. m. castaneus	0.369 (0.045)	0.35 (0.119)	0.372 (0.045)	0.247 (0.15)
A. thaliana	0.419 (0.015)	0.83 (0.04)	0.423 (0.015)	0.809 (0.065)
C. grandiflora	0.355 (0.021)	0.475 (0.043)	0.351 (0.021)	0.165 (0.067)
S. bicolor	0.689 (0.092)	0.903 (0.263)	0.710 (0.095)	0.675 (0.292)
B. stricta	0.441 (0.039)	0.503 (0.174)	0.443 (0.0379)	0.411 (0.178)
A. lyrata	0.276 (0.053)	0.729 (0.119)	0.278 (0.054)	0.651 (0.139)
C. rubella	0.263 (0.042)	1.191 (0.21)	0.258 (0.043)	1.126 (0.243)
S. paradoxus	0.23 (0.023)	0.566 (0.208)	0.23 (0.0218)	0.387 (0.131)

Estimates of the variation of N_e in 10 eukaryotic species are shown. Results are for an underlying log-normal distribution for N_e and μ, assuming either free recombination or no recombination (see Materials and Methods). For each data set the mean shape parameters ${\sigma }_{N_{\text{e}}}$ and σ_μ and in parentheses their standard deviations (SD) obtained from the posterior distribution are given.