Detecting past changes of effective population size
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Detecting past changes of effective population size
Understanding and predicting population abundance is a major challenge confronting scientists. Several genetic models have been developed using microsatellite markers to estimate the present and ancestral effective population sizes. However, to get an overview on the evolution of population requires that past fluctuation of population size be traceable. To address the question, we developed a n...
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عنوان ژورنال: Evolutionary Applications
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1752-4571,1752-4571
DOI: 10.1111/eva.12170