Re: Minimum number of males in a breeding population
- From: "Dunc Harris" <dunc_harris@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 31 Mar 2006 06:12:35 -0800
10,000 individuals with sex ratio of 1 to 10, i.e. 910 males and 9090
females (sounds like fun), the effective population size is 3308.76
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_population_size#Non-Fisherian_sex-ratios
for the equation.
Of course this can be further reduced by other factors.
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