title: Random mating with a finite number of matings.
abstract: Random mating is the null model central to population genetics. One assumption behind random mating is that individuals mate an infinite number of times. This is obviously unrealistic. Here we show that when each female mates a finite number of times, the effective size of the population is substantially decreased.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EH, United Kingdom. fb255@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Balloux
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lehmann
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003433:Crosses, Genetic; D005260:Female; D005828:Genetics, Population; D007178:Inbreeding; D008297:Male; D008957:Models, Genetic; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011156:Population Density; D012744:Sex Ratio