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. 2008 Mar 18;1(3):462–474. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2008.00015.x

Table 3.

Percentiles (10th, 50th and 90th) of estimated effective number of breeders for 5000 replicated simulation runs with unequal contribution of parents under monogamy in the noninbred and inbred populations with N =10 (half of each sex) parents and the sample size of n =100.

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Contribution Neb,demo Population 10th 50th 90th 10th 50th 90th 10th 50th 90th
0.4, 0.3, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1 7.18 Noninbred 4.53 8.14 302.02 (9.3) 3.59 6.91 18.55 (2.1) 4.81 7.31 13.46 (0.2)
Inbred 4.07 8.30 ∞ (16.9) 2.69 5.45 14.09 (1.1) 4.09 6.31 10.95 (0)
0.6, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1 5.03 Noninbred 3.80 6.82 107.07 (8.8) 2.26 4.74 13.90 (2.0) 3.40 5.42 9.94 (0.1)
Inbred 3.63 7.24 ∞ (14.6) 1.76 4.17 12.50 (1.6) 2.96 5.02 8.90 (0.1)

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

Contribution: expected contributions of Inline graphic=5 couples to sample.

Neb,demo, effective number of breeders expected from demographic parameters; Inline graphic, estimated Neb from the heterozygote-excess method; Inline graphic, estimated Neb from equation (7); Inline graphic, harmonic mean of Inline graphic and Inline graphic.

Figures in parentheses are the percentage of replicates with Inline graphic.