Table 2.

Percentiles (10th, 50th and 90th) of estimated effective number of breeders for 5000 replicated simulation runs in the noninbred and inbred populations with several additional combinations of the number of parents and sample size.

Population and breeding system	N or Nm:Nf	Neb,demo	n	10th	50th	90th	10th	50th	90th	10th	50th	90th
Noninbred
Monogamy	10	10	10	4.84	11.99	∞ (23.2)	4.10	8.27	∞ (10.3)	5.39	9.42	27.01 (2.1)
			20	5.24	11.01	∞ (16.7)	4.48	8.81	114.5 (8.5)	5.90	9.57	24.42 (1.2)
	50	50	50	19.73	55.33	∞ (26.5)	17.0	45.80	∞ (23.1)	22.58	44.75	285.37 (6.3)
Polygyny	5:20	13.79	20	7.63	16.18	∞ (14.4)	6.11	12.42	∞ (12.0)	8.80	13.81	38.51 (1.7)
			50	8.73	15.17	73.97 (5.8)	7.06	13.57	85.49 (6.7)	9.09	14.15	30.01 (0.5)
	20:80	53.78	100	25.28	59.03	∞ (17.6)	21.62	50.24	∞ (18.2)	28.10	52.03	203.54 (3.0)
Inbred
Monogamy	10	10	10	4.46	12.18	∞ (26.5)	3.43	6.70	38.20 (5.7)	4.90	8.03	18.09 (0.9)
			20	4.81	10.99	∞ (22.8)	3.51	6.60	22.29 (3.6)	5.08	7.85	16.58 (0.3)
	50	50	50	17.50	50.37	∞ (23.4)	11.58	20.30	85.59 (4.7)	16.58	27.83	69.50 (1.0)
Polygyny	5:20	13.79	20	7.52	16.19	∞ (17.6)	5.00	9.31	41.06 (4.8)	7.26	11.45	25.37 (0.6)
			50	8.47	15.85	∞ (10.0)	5.31	8.85	21.79 (1.6)	7.71	11.33	19.90 (0)
	20:80	53.78	100	23.61	57.84	∞ (19.7)	15.01	24.62	73.89 (2.6)	21.44	33.73	72.07 (0.4)

Fifteen (L = 15) high-polymorphic marker loci were assumed.

N, the number of parents (half of each sex) in monogamy; N_m, the number of male parents; N_f, the number of female parents in polygyny; N_eb,demo, effective number of breeders expected from demographic parameters; , estimated N_eb from the heterozygote-excess method; , estimated N_eb from equation (7); , harmonic mean of and .

Figures in parentheses are the percentage of replicates with .