Variance effective population size for mitochondrial genes

摘要

A formula for variance effective population size (N_e) for analysis of mitochondrial genes is deduced and discussed. Only the female part of the population is taken into account; hence, N_e is, in the given case, the effective number of females, N_e = M~2(N - 1)/#sigma#~2, where N is the number of females, #sigma#~2 is the variance of the reproductive contributions of individual females (measured as the number of their daughters that are part of the next generation), and m is the mean number of daughters per female.