Table 5. Contemporary effective population size.
Average and 95% confidence intervals for the contemporary effective population size (Ne) for three species of octopus. Locations were pooled according to the results of the genetic assignment of species (Fig. 2). Ne was estimated with two methods, including linkage disequilibrium (LD; lowest allele frequency used 0.05 and 0.02 respectively) and Molecular coancestry (MC).
| LDNE 0.05 | LDNE 0.02 | MC | |
|---|---|---|---|
| O. bimaculoides | 9.7 (6.4–13.9) | 17.9 (13.6–24.0) | 9.9 (3.6–19.2) |
| O. bimaculatus | 190.2 (129.2–324.2) | 252.7 (182.8–388.8) | ∞ (∞–∞) |
| O. hubbsorum | 104.8 (69.9–181.3) | 131.4 (95.7–197.1) | 28.1 (6.8–64.3) |