Effective population size when fertility is inherited
- 1 September 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in Genetics Research
- Vol. 8 (2) , 257-260
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016672300010119
Abstract
A formula for effective population size when fertility is inherited is worked out. It is shown that the effective size decreases as the heritability of fertility or progeny number increases.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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