Figure 4.
The expected loss of genetic diversity caused by recent bottlenecks. Panels (a–c) show the distributions of mean allele numbers across loci obtained from 100,000 neutral coalescent simulations of a bottleneck to an Nebot of 200 for ten generations (orange) and a constant population size scenario (grey) with three different pre-bottleneck effective population sizes (Nehist). Panel (d) further explores the effects of bottleneck duration and strength on the expected loss of allelic diversity under the scenario shown in panel (b) as described in the Methods.