Sentences with phrase «small effective population size»
Conditions not relating directly to breed standards account for over 75 % of all inherited disorders in pedigree dogs [24] and have been attributed to breed formation and small effective population size, the repeated use of popular sires and inbreeding.
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McGowen explained that this feature «has been connected to mammals with similar life histories, such as species with large generation times, large parental investment, and small effective population size.
Not exact matches
The invariance likely results from either a recent selective sweep, a recent origin for modern Homo sapiens, recurrent male population bottlenecks, or historically small effective male population sizes.
They are effective predators that mainly hunt small or medium - sized vertebrates (Fitzgerald and Turner 2000), and while the density of feral cats is directly correlated with prey abundance (Genovesi et al. 1995; Edwards et al. 2001), the population density of free - ranging house cats is more reflective of human density (due to the provision of supplementary food) than that of their prey (Sims et al. 2008).