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1. Full Text Prediction and estimation of effective population size
by Wang, J and Santiago, E and Caballero, A
Heredity, ISSN 0018-067X, 10/2016, Volume 117, Issue 4, pp. 193 - 206
Effective population size (N-e) is a key parameter in population genetics. It has important applications in evolutionary biology, conservation genetics and... 
OVERLAPPING GENERATIONS | MULTILOCUS GENOTYPE DATA | EFFECTIVE NUMBER | APPROXIMATE BAYESIAN COMPUTATION | MARKER-ASSISTED SELECTION | NONRANDOM MATING POPULATIONS | TEMPORALLY SPACED SAMPLES | ALLELE FREQUENCY CHANGES | EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | SUBDIVIDED POPULATIONS | GENETICS & HEREDITY | LINKAGE-DISEQUILIBRIUM | ECOLOGY | Genetic Drift | Gene Frequency | Selection, Genetic | Genetic Markers | Linkage Disequilibrium | Biological Evolution | Reproduction | Genetics, Population - methods | Population Density | Inbreeding | Models, Genetic | Mutation | Genetic Linkage | Population genetics | Research methodology | Review
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2. Full Text Effects of overlapping generations on linkage disequilibrium estimates of effective population size
by Waples, Robin S and Antao, Tiago and Luikart, Gordon
Genetics, ISSN 0016-6731, 2014, Volume 197, Issue 2, pp. 769 - 780
Use of single-sample genetic methods to estimate effective population size has skyrocketed in recent years. Although the underlying models assume discrete... 
AGE-STRUCTURED POPULATIONS | CONSERVATION | EVOLUTION | NUMBERS | N-E | GENETICS & HEREDITY | SIMUPOP | SINGLE-SAMPLE | PROGRAM | GENETIC-MARKERS | ABUNDANCE | Biological Evolution | Genetics, Population | Animals | Population Density | Models, Genetic | Plants | Linkage Disequilibrium | Genetics | Population genetics | Deoxyribonucleic acid--DNA | AgeNe | age structure | life history | computer simulations | iteroparity | ldne | Investigations | effective number of breeders
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3. Full Text Effective/census population size ratio estimation: a compendium and appraisal
by Palstra, Friso P and Fraser, Dylan J
Ecology and Evolution, ISSN 2045-7758, 09/2012, Volume 2, Issue 9, pp. 2357 - 2365
With an ecological‐evolutionary perspective increasingly applied toward the conservation and management of endangered or exploited species, the genetic... 
empirical estimation | effective population size | genetic stochasticity | Conservation genetics | Effective population size | Genetic stochasticity | Empirical estimation | OVERLAPPING GENERATIONS | AGE-STRUCTURED POPULATIONS | TEMPORAL-CHANGES | TRITURUS-MARMORATUS | N-E | ALLELE FREQUENCY | SALMON POPULATIONS | GENETIC DIVERSITY | LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM | ECOLOGY | Uncertainty | Demography | Endangered species | Natural populations | Population number | Research | Population genetics | Empirical analysis | Manuscripts | Confidence intervals | Animal reproduction | Census | Ratios | Researchers | Censuses | Population | Trends | Evolution & development | Business combinations | Review
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4. Full Text Understanding and Estimating Effective Population Size for Practical Application in Marine Species Management
by MATTHEW P. HARE and LEONARD NUNNEY and MICHAEL K. SCHWARTZ and DANIEL E. RUZZANTE and MARTHA BURFORD and ROBIN S. WAPLES and KRISTEN RUEGG and FRISO PALSTRA
Conservation Biology, ISSN 0888-8892, 6/2011, Volume 25, Issue 3, pp. 438 - 449
Effective population size (N e ) determines the strength of genetic drift in a population and has long been recognized as an important parameter for evaluating... 
Conservation biology | Population ecology | Genetic drift | Ecological genetics | Population estimates | Population size | Evolutionary genetics | Inbreeding | Review | Population genetics | Estimation methods | variance Ne | N e varianza | hatchery‐based supplementation | contemporary Ne | genetic drift | método temporal | inbreeding Ne | N e contempóranea | Ne/N ratio | metapoblación | long‐term Ne | N e endogámica | suplementación basada en criaderos | deriva génica | proporción Ne/N selección | selection | metapopulation | temporal method | OVERLAPPING GENERATIONS | EFFECTIVE NUMBER | variance N-e | ALLELE FREQUENCY | contemporary N-e | TEMPORAL CHANGES | COD GADUS-MORHUA | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | hatchery-based supplementation | CONSERVATION BIOLOGY | inbreeding N-e | N-e/N ratio | LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM | ECOLOGY | SALMON SALMO-SALAR | BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION | NORTH-SEA | long-term N-e | GENETIC-MARKERS | Fishes - genetics | Aquatic Organisms - genetics | Genetic Drift | Animals | Time Factors | Breeding | Population Density | Conservation of Natural Resources | Fishes - physiology | Aquaculture | Population Dynamics
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5. Full Text Evaluating methods for estimating local effective population size with and without migration
by Kimberly J. Gilbert and Michael C. Whitlock
Evolution, ISSN 0014-3820, 8/2015, Volume 69, Issue 8, pp. 2154 - 2166
Effective population size is a fundamental parameter in population genetics, evolutionary biology, and conservation biology, yet its estimation can be fraught... 
Estimate reliability | Demography | Population estimates | Population size | Population migration | Evolutionary genetics | Population genetics | Metapopulation ecology | Human migration | Estimation methods | gene flow | population genetics | Effective population size | population structure | genetic drift | Genetic drift | Population structure | Gene flow | MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD | EVOLUTIONARY | EFFECTIVE NUMBER | BREEDERS | N-E | PARAMETERS | EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM | CONSERVATION | GENETICS & HEREDITY | ECOLOGY | PROGRAM | Biological Evolution | Conservation of Natural Resources - methods | Genetics, Population | Animals | Computer Simulation | Population Density | Animal Migration | Islands | Population Dynamics | Research
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6. Full Text Population size and molecular evolution on islands
by Megan Woolfit and Lindell Bromham
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, ISSN 0962-8452, 11/2005, Volume 272, Issue 1578, pp. 2277 - 2282
. Island endemic species provide an ideal test of the effect of 
Datasets | Molecular evolution | Biological taxonomies | Taxa | Endemic species | Population size | Evolutionary genetics | Genetic mutation | Population genetics | We they distinction | Substitution rates | Effective population size | Comparative method | Molecular clock | d(N)/d(S) | SUBSTITUTION | RECOMBINATION | MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD | MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA | molecular evolution | DROSOPHILA | comparative method | effective population size | GENETIC-VARIATION | RATES | molecular clock | ENDOSYMBIOTIC BACTERIA | BIOLOGY | DIVERGENCE | substitution rates | SEQUENCE EVOLUTION | Geography | Models, Theoretical | Genetics, Population | Base Sequence - genetics | Likelihood Functions | Population Density | Computational Biology | Models, Genetic | Phylogeny | Evolution, Molecular
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7. Full Text ONeSAMP: A program to estimate effective population size using approximate Bayesian computation: COMPUTER PROGRAMS
by Tallmon, David A and Koyuk, Ally and Luikart, Gordon and Beaumont, Mark A
Molecular Ecology Resources, ISSN 1755-098X, 03/2008, Volume 8, Issue 2, pp. 299 - 301
Bottleneck | Microsatellite | Effective population size | Approximate Bayesian computation | Conservation genetics
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8. Full Text ONeSAMP: a program to estimate effective population size using approximate Bayesian computation
by Tallmon, DA and Koyuk, A and Luikart, G and Beaumont, MA
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES, ISSN 1755-098X, 03/2008, Volume 8, Issue 2, pp. 299 - 301
The estimation of effective population size from one sample of genotypes has been problematic because most estimators have been proven imprecise or biased. We... 
effective population size | EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM | BIAS | DNA | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | bottleneck | microsatellite | ECOLOGY | LOCI | approximate Bayesian computation | conservation genetics
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9. Full Text Ancestry-specific recent effective population size in the Americas
by Browning, Sharon R and Browning, Brian L and Daviglus, Martha L and Durazo-Arvizu, Ramon A and Schneiderman, Neil and Kaplan, Robert C and Laurie, Cathy C
PLoS Genetics, ISSN 1553-7390, 05/2018, Volume 14, Issue 5, p. e1007385
Populations change in size over time due to factors such as population growth, migration, bottleneck events, natural disasters, and disease. The historical... 
IDENTITY | DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY | GROWTH | GENETICS & HEREDITY | INFERENCE | DESCENT | LOCAL-ANCESTRY | Haplotypes | Americas | European Continental Ancestry Group - genetics | Hispanic Americans - genetics | United States | Humans | African Americans - genetics | Genetic Association Studies - methods | European Continental Ancestry Group - statistics & numerical data | Hispanic Americans - statistics & numerical data | Genome, Human - genetics | African Americans - statistics & numerical data | Genetics, Population - methods | Computer Simulation | Population Density | African Americans | Genetic aspects | Emigration and immigration | Natural disasters | Genomics | Hispanic Americans | Population growth | Migration | Principal components analysis | Population studies | Genomes | Preventive medicine | Epidemiology | Consortia | Immigration | Population | Genetics
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10. Full Text Making sense of genetic estimates of effective population size
by Waples, Robin S
Molecular Ecology, ISSN 0962-1083, 10/2016, Volume 25, Issue 19, pp. 4689 - 4691
The last decade has seen an explosion of interest in use of genetic markers to estimate effective population size, Ne. Effective population size is important... 
siblings | computer simulations | bias | precision | linkage disequilibrium | Computer simulations | Precision | Bias | Linkage disequilibrium | Siblings | SAMPLE | EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | EFFECTIVE NUMBER | BREEDERS | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | ECOLOGY | PROGRAM | Biological Evolution | Humans | Population Density | Male | Models, Genetic | Genetic Markers | Linkage Disequilibrium | Genetic research | Genetic markers | Analysis | Ecology | Animal populations | Population genetics
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11. Full Text Estimating virus effective population size and selection without neutral markers
by Rousseau, Elsa and Moury, Benoît and Mailleret, Ludovic and Senoussi, Rachid and Palloix, Alain and Simon, Vincent and Valière, Sophie and Grognard, Frédéric and Fabre, Frédéric
PLoS Pathogens, ISSN 1553-7366, 11/2017, Volume 13, Issue 11, pp. e1006702 - 25
By combining high-throughput sequencing (HTS) with experimental evolution, we can observe the within-host dynamics of pathogen variants of biomedical or... 
TEMPORAL-CHANGES | BENEFICIAL MUTATIONS | TIME-SERIES DATA | MICROBIOLOGY | SINGLE-NUCLEOTIDE SUBSTITUTIONS | MOSAIC-VIRUS | RNA VIRUSES | PLANT-RESISTANCE | TOBACCO-ETCH-VIRUS | VIROLOGY | ALLELE FREQUENCIES | AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES | PARASITOLOGY | Genetic Drift | Plant Diseases - virology | Selection, Genetic | Capsicum - virology | Genotype | High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing | Models, Genetic | Genetic Markers | Evolution, Molecular | Potyvirus - genetics | Potyvirus - physiology | Potatoes | Funding | Plant resistance | Population number | Viruses | Population genetics | Next-generation sequencing | Dynamics | Population | Genetics | Ecological monitoring | Mathematical models | Plant viruses | Bioinformatics | Supervision | Genotypes | Adaptation | Plants (botany) | Pathogens | Genetic drift | Computer simulation | Breeding | Estimation | Markers | Studies | Plant breeding | Drift | Mutation | Methods | Fitness | Life Sciences | Mathematics | Automatic Control Engineering | Engineering Sciences | Computer Science
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12. Full Text Protein evolution depends on multiple distinct population size parameters
by Platt, Alexander and Weber, Claudia C and Liberles, David A
BMC Evolutionary Biology, ISSN 1471-2148, 02/2018, Volume 18, Issue 1, pp. 17 - 9
That population size affects the fate of new mutations arising in genomes, modulating both how frequently they arise and how efficiently natural selection is... 
Protein evolution | Mutation-selection models | Effective population size | BACKGROUND SELECTION | COVARION HYPOTHESIS | NUCLEOTIDE SUBSTITUTION | TIME SCALES | MOLECULAR EVOLUTION | MODEL | WEAK SELECTION | GENOME | EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | ARTIFICIAL SELECTION | SEQUENCE | GENETICS & HEREDITY | Proteins - genetics | Genetics, Population | Mutation - genetics | Population Density | Selection, Genetic | Evolution, Molecular | Physiological aspects | Molecular evolution | Research | Population genetics
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13. Full Text Adaptive evolution and effective population size in wild house mice
by Phifer-Rixey, Megan and Bonhomme, François and Boursot, Pierre and Churchill, Gary A and Piálek, Jaroslav and Tucker, Priscilla K and Nachman, Michael W
Molecular Biology and Evolution, ISSN 0737-4038, 10/2012, Volume 29, Issue 10, pp. 2949 - 2955
Estimates of the proportion of amino acid substitutions that have been fixed by selection (alpha) vary widely among taxa, ranging from zero in humans to over... 
effective population size | adaptation | Mus musculus | substitution | evolution | house mouse | DROSOPHILA-MELANOGASTER | GENUS MUS | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | MOLECULAR EVOLUTION | AMINO-ACID SUBSTITUTIONS | POLYMORPHISM | EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | HUMAN GENOME | MUS-MUSCULUS | PROTEIN EVOLUTION | GENETICS & HEREDITY | SELECTION | DELETERIOUS MUTATIONS | Biological Evolution | Mice - genetics | Animals | Adaptation, Physiological - genetics | Humans | Population Density | Amino Acid Substitution - genetics | Population Dynamics
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