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Sex-linked effective population size (Ne) is derived for a variety of control population structures relevant to normal diploid and/or, more importantly, to haplo-diploid species. For equal sex ratio, it is shown that the control population structure which doubles autosomal effective population size trebles sex-linked effective size. For haplo-diploid species where the number of males exceeds the number of reproductive females, several different control structures are described, which tend to increase effective population size by about 1/3. These would be suitable for stock maintenance of honeybees. Directional selection programmes employing within-family selection would maintain most of the minimum drift/inbreeding properties of these control populations.
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Moran, C. Sex-linked effective population size in control populations, with particular reference to honeybees (Apis mellifera L.). Theoret. Appl. Genetics 67, 317–322 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00272867
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