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Mother-offspring data for alcohol dehydrogenase genotypes of a vineyard cellar population of D. melanogaster are best explained by a model that allows 21% of females in the population to mate twice with an 83% level of sperm displacement. A population model with multiple mating and sperm displacement is examined theoretically. A formula for the effective population size is derived under this model. Multiple mating increases the effective population size relative to single mating.
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Griffiths, R.C., McKechnie, S.W. & McKenzie, J.A. Multiple mating and sperm displacement in a natural population of Drosophila melanogaster . Theoret. Appl. Genetics 62, 89–96 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00276292
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