| Range |
unicellular eukaryotes <10^8, sometimes 10^6: invertebrates ~10^6: some vertebrates 10^4 individuals
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| Organism |
Eukaryotes |
| Reference |
Michael Lynch and Georgi K. Marinov, The bioenergetic costs of a gene, PNAS 2015 doi: 10.1073/pnas.1514974112 p.3 left column 3rd paragraph |
| Comments |
P.3 left column 3rd paragraph:"Unicellular eukaryotes often have Ne<10^8, sometimes ranging down to 10^6 , implying that insertions of small to moderate size will frequently be unmovable by natural selection...The effective population sizes of invertebrates tend to be in the neighborhood of 10^6, with that of some vertebrates (including humans) ranging down to 10^4, and in such cases the power of random genetic drift is sufficient to overwhelm the ability of natural selection to eliminate quite large insertions on the basis of DNA-level costs." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
112122 |