Robin S. Waples

This study examines how extreme male reproductive skew in American Standardbred horses reduces effective population size, leading to very low Ne/N ratios and genetic diversity loss.

The paper derives an exact formula for the contribution of sampling error to r2, showing it equals 1/(S - 1) when sampling error is the only factor affecting LD.

The paper estimates effective population size in a captive-bred Saimaa salmon population and finds that management practices slightly increase Ne, but survival variability remains a major factor.

This study compares genomic data from modern and museum specimens of two marine fish species in the Philippines, revealing significant genetic diversity loss and population size reductions over the past century.

The paper introduces a new method to optimally combine genetic estimates of Ne using inverse-variance weighting and presents software for implementation.

MAXTEMP improves precision of Ne estimation by leveraging multigenerational temporal data in genetic monitoring programs.

The paper examines how overlapping generations affect estimates of effective population size (Ne) and provides conditions under which unbiased estimates can be achieved.

The paper quantifies pseudoreplication in genomics-scale datasets by measuring effective degrees of freedom for FST and r2, showing that variance components analysis reveals sampling uncertainty as the limiting factor.

This study compares the precision of sibship and LD methods for estimating effective population size using large genomic datasets and finds the LD method is more precise with sufficient loci.