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THE EFFECT OF DELAYED POPULATION GROWTH ON THE GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION OF LOCAL POPULATIONS SUBJECT TO FREQUENT EXTINCTIONS AND RECOLONIZATIONS
Author(s) -
Ingvarsson Pär K.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
evolution
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.84
H-Index - 199
eISSN - 1558-5646
pISSN - 0014-3820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1997.tb02385.x
Subject(s) - biology , extinction (optical mineralogy) , population , small population size , genetic drift , population growth , population size , effective population size , constant (computer programming) , evolutionary biology , ecology , demography , genetic variation , genetics , gene , paleontology , sociology , habitat , computer science , programming language
I investigated the effects of delayed population growth on the genetic differentiation among populations subjected to local extinction and recolonization, for two different migration functions; (1) a constant migration rate, and (2) a constant number of migrants. A delayed period of population growth reduces the size of the newly founded populations for one or several generations. Whether this increases differentiation among local populations depends on the actual pattern of migration. With a constant migration rate, fewer migrants move into small populations than into large, thus providing ample opportunity for drift to act within a population. A prolonged period of population growth thus makes the conditions for enhanced differentiation between local populations less restrictive and also inflates the actual levels of differentiation. The effect depends on the relative magnitudes of k e , the effective number of colonizers and k , the actual number of colonizers. When there is a constant number of migrants into a population per generation, migration into small populations is increased. This increase of migration in small populations counteracts the effects of genetic drift due to small population size. It increases the rate by which populations approach equilibrium, as small populations are swamped by migrants from larger populations closer to genetic equilibrium, and overall levels of differentiation are thus reduced. I also discuss situations for which the results of this paper are relevant.

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