The Rate of Reproduction - Genetic Diversity in Establishing Plant Populations: Founder Number and Geometry - page 158

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GENERATION

Fig. 10.13 Population F values (A) and mean unique alleles retained (B) for trial populations
over 16 rounds of reproduction. The trial populations are identical (see text for details on trials
S versus L), except that in trial S the 80 founders were placed in one square of 9 parallel lines
of founders, each line with 9 founders (except for one line from which one founder has been
removed), and there are 3 grid points between adjacent individuals, while for trial L, the 80
founders were situated in four groups of 20 each. In each of those groups, the 20 individuals
were divided into two lines that run parallel to the bottom horizontal border. In each group,
there are 9 grid points between adjacent individuals and between lines. The smallest distance
between the closest individuals of any two separated groups is 60 grid units.