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CONSIDER an organism with both autosomal and X-linked loci. The effective population sizes for an autosomal (Nea) and an X-linked (Nes) locus can be shown1 to be where M and F are, respectively, the numbers of reproducing males and females in a random-mating population.
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CROZIER, R. Counter-intuitive property of effective population size. Nature 262, 384 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/262384a0
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