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Correlation between genetic diversity, lifetime expectancy, population size and dispersal rate |
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| Lifetime expectancy (LTE) |
Census population size (N) |
Dispersal rate (number of immigrants) |
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| r |
p |
r |
p |
r |
p |
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| Expected heterozygosity (He) |
1.000 |
<0.0001 |
0.600 |
0.285 |
1.000 |
<0.0001 |
| Gene diversity (Div) |
0.700 |
0.188 |
0.900 |
0.037 |
0.700 |
0.188 |
| Percentage of polymorphic loci (PPL) |
0.949 |
0.014 |
0.632 |
0.252 |
0.949 |
0.014 |
| Lifetime expectancy (LTE) |
- |
- |
0.600 |
0.285 |
1.000 |
<0.0001 |
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Spearman coefficients (r) in bold are statistically significant at the 0.05 level. | ||||||
Vandewoestijne et al. BMC Biology 2008 6:46 doi:10.1186/1741-7007-6-46 |
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