Table 4.

Harmonic mean and percentiles (10th, 50th and 90th) of two estimates ( and ) of effective number of breeders from 200 replicated simulation runs with a combined use of the molecular coancestry method and a sib-ship reconstruction technique.

		Percentile
Estimate	Harmonic mean	10th	50th	90th
	16.11	9.10	16.41	111.56 (5.5)
	8.07	5.32	8.14	16.33 (0.1)
	14.39	10.74	15.07	18.54 (0)
	12.84	9.66	13.38	17.67 (0)

The corresponding values from the heterozygote-excess () and molecular coancestry () methods are also presented. Polygyny with N_m = 5 male and N_f = 20 female parents in the inbred population with L = 15 high-polymorphic marker loci and the sample size of n = 100 was assumed. The effective number of breeders expected from demographic parameters is 13.79.

Figures in parentheses are the percentage of replicates with .