A population of fruit flies is maintained at 4,000 individuals for t generations. During the 11th generation, the professor in charge of the flies forgot to by fly food and only 100 flies survived. What is the effective population size of this population?
What will be an ideal response?
ANS:
Ne = m/(1/N1 + 1/N2 +….+ 1/N11) = 11/0.125 = 880
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