Table 2. Mean (arithmetic), median and standard deviation of present (No) and ancestral (Na) effective population size, the mutation rate (µ), and ancestral time in years (Tf) of Harbour seals in Moray Firth (left part, MSVAR analysis).

Mean (arithmetic and harmonic), median and standard deviation (Sd) of present (No) and the estimated size 5.000 generations ago (N5000), and the global present ($\hat{N}o$) and ancestral estimate ($\hat{N}$a) (right part, VarEff analysis).

	MSVAR				VarEff
	No	Na	µ	Tf	No	N5000	$\hat{N}o$	$\hat{N}$a
Mean	1,669	342,874	0.00018	96,416	988 and 649	14,824
Median	821	128,186	0.00010	37,235	714	11,298	1,287	64,826
Sd	2,979	846,836	0.00026	219,518	2,089	230,55