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The 21 pages that link to Effective population size, each with the reason it gives.

• Population geneticsRelated: It helps infer how strongly chance and demographic changes shape variation.

• Genetic driftRelated: It predicts drift more accurately than a population’s head count.

• Gene flowRelated: Its relationship to migration helps determine whether incoming alleles can counter genetic drift.

• Genetic diversityRelated: It predicts how quickly drift erodes diversity, beyond what census size alone indicates.

• Founder effectRelated: It helps predict how strongly a small founding group will drift genetically.

• Insecticide resistanceRelated: It helps explain how strongly chance can affect resistance-allele frequencies.

• Conservation geneticsRelated: It often reveals genetic vulnerability more clearly than a population’s head count.

• Incomplete lineage sortingRelated: Larger ancestral effective populations tend to retain genetic variation longer, increasing sorting discordance.

• InbreedingRelated: Small effective size accelerates related mating and the accumulation of inbreeding.

• Population bottleneckRelated: It captures how strongly a bottleneck affects genetic change, beyond the census count.

• Minimum viable populationRelated: It can be much smaller than the census count relevant to a viability estimate.

• Genetic ancestryRelated: It shapes how much genetic diversity persists across generations.

• HeterozygosityRelated: It predicts how quickly drift erodes heterozygosity in finite populations.

• Neutral theory of molecular evolutionRelated: It determines how strongly drift competes with weak selection.

• Extinction vortexRelated: It can be far smaller than the head count and better predicts genetic vulnerability.

• Genetic loadRelated: It predicts how effectively selection can remove mildly deleterious variants.

• Coalescent theoryRelated: It determines the rate at which ancestral lineages coalesce.

• Muller’s ratchetRelated: It predicts how readily drift can erase the least-loaded class.

• HeterozygousRelated: It helps predict how quickly genetic drift erodes heterozygosity.

• Human evolutionary geneticsRelated: It translates genetic patterns into estimates of past population scale.

• Motoo KimuraRelated: It determines how strongly drift acts and how often slightly deleterious mutations behave as neutral.