Population Size in Evolutionary Biology Is More Than the Effective Size [PDF]
Evolutionary ApplicationsIn population genetics idealized Wright‐Fisher (WF) populations are generally considered equivalent to real populations with regard to the major evolutionary processes that influence genotype and allele frequencies.
Joachim Mergeay
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Estimating effective population size using RADseq: Effects of SNP selection and sample size
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Effective population size (Ne) is a key parameter of population genetics. However, Ne remains challenging to estimate for natural populations as several factors are likely to bias estimates.
Florianne Marandel +5 more
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Effective size of a wild salmonid population is greatly reduced by hatchery supplementation. [PDF]
Heredity (Edinb), 2012 Christie MR +4 more
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Genealogical information analysis of Gyr and Nelore cattle from Costa Rica [PDF]
Ciência Rural, 2023 : The objectives were to analyze the genealogical information of Gyr (GY) and Nelore (NL) cattle from Costa Rica. Analyzed: pedigree integrity (GY, 13272; NL, 18153); number of complete, maximum traced and equivalent complete generations; inbreeding (FI);
Ruth Castro-Vásquez +5 more
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A Simple and Effective Pruning Approach for Large Language Models [PDF]
International Conference on Learning Representations, 2023 As their size increases, Large Languages Models (LLMs) are natural candidates for network pruning methods: approaches that drop a subset of network weights while striving to preserve performance.
Mingjie Sun +3 more
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Lack of panmixia of Bothnian Bay vendace - Implications for fisheries management
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Overexploitation of fisheries is recognized as a major environmental and socioeconomic problem that threats biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.
María-Eugenia López +8 more
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Genetic variability of Guzerat cattle raised in northern Brazil, based on pedigree analysis
Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, 2022 Genealogical data comprised 45,711 animals born between 1901 and 2016, with 48,127 animals in the pedigree file. Population structure was analyzed in terms of pedigree completeness, individual inbreeding coefficient (F), generation interval (L), rate of ...
J.L. Ferreira +10 more
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Prediction of the minimum effective size of a population viable in the long term
Biodiversity and Conservation, 2022 The establishment of the minimum size for a viable population (MVP) has been used as a guidance in conservation practice to determine the extinction risks of populations and species. A consensus MVP rule of 50/500 individuals has been attained, according
Noelia Pérez-Pereira +3 more
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Large Language Models are Effective Text Rankers with Pairwise Ranking Prompting [PDF]
NAACL-HLT, 2023 Ranking documents using Large Language Models (LLMs) by directly feeding the query and candidate documents into the prompt is an interesting and practical problem.
Zhen Qin +10 more
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Individualized Medicine in Africa: Bringing the Practice Into the Realms of Population Heterogeneity
Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 The declared aim of “personalized”, “stratified” or “precision” approaches is to place individual variation, as ascertained through genomic and various other biomarkers, at the heart of Scientific Medicine using it to predict risk of disease or response ...
Ayman A. Hussein +3 more
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