Table 3.
Prior settings and estimations of posterior distributions of parameters for the best supported scenario (S4) of demographical history of Quercus liaotungensis with approximate Bayesian computation.
| Parameter | Prior value | Mean | Median | Mode | 95% low | 95% high | RMAE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ne | 1E3∼1E5 | 3.48E + 04 | 3.29E + 04 | 2.87E + 04 | 1.69E + 04 | 5.98E + 04 | 0.204 |
| Ta (year) | 1.25E4∼3.75E4 | 1.92E + 06 | 1.88E + 06 | 1.22E + 06 | 1.09E + 06 | 2.87E + 06 | 0.217 |
| Tdb (year) | 2.5E2∼1.5E3 | 7.02E + 04 | 7.02E + 04 | 9.60E + 04 | 2.50E + 04 | 1.15E + 05 | 0.297 |
| Ndb | 1E3∼1E5 | 7.35E + 04 | 7.63E + 04 | 9.60E + 04 | 3.97E + 04 | 9.78E + 04 | 0.143 |
| Na | 1E3∼1E5 | 1.66E + 04 | 1.19E + 04 | 1.69E + 03 | 1.81E + 03 | 4.82E + 04 | 0.373 |
| μcpDNA | 5E-8∼7E-8 | 5.93E-08 | 5.92E-08 | 5.00E-08 | 5.07E-08 | 6.85E-08 | 0.089 |
| μnrDNA | 1E-7∼3E-7 | 1.78E-07 | 1.70E-07 | 1.26E-07 | 1.07E-07 | 2.74E-07 | 0.181 |
Ne, current effective population size; Na, ancestral effective population size; Ndb, effective population size after expansion or decline; Ta, time of ancestral effective population; Tdb, time of effective population changes; μ, mutation rate of genetic loci; RMAE, relative median absolute error.