Table 3. Estimated effective population size for each Dasypterus taxon examined.
Estimated current effective population size (Ne) with 95% confidence intervals and estimated historic female effective population size (NEf) using low and high mutation rates for each taxon in this study.
Taxon | n | Ne | Lower 95% CI | Upper 95% CI | NEfLow | NEfHigh |
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D. ega | 118 | 423 | 169 | ∞ | 1,031 | 13,924 |
D. i. floridanus | 50 | ∞ | 551 | ∞ | 9,797 | 132,277 |
D. i. intermedius | 212 | 1,032 | 325 | ∞ | 8,349 | 112,724 |
D. intermedius | 262 | 2,880 | 396 | ∞ | – | – |