Figure 1
From: The risk of forcing inbreeding in conservation programmes: a reply to Theodorou and Couvet
Probability of extinction at generations 10 and 25 (percentage of replicates extinct at that generation) and average expected heterozygosity for neutral genes (H), for populations of maximum size Nmax and reproductive rate K=1.5 (where 2K is the maximum number of progeny per individual) under mutational model A of Caballero et al. (2016). Previous to the establishment of the captive management, the population of size N=1000 individuals suffered a reduction to a size N=10 individuals over 20 generations. Selection coefficients of deleterious non-lethal mutations are halved during conservation management. The expected inbreeding depression at the start of the conservation programme corresponds to an inbreeding load of B=1.2. Conservation programmes: CM, circular mating; EC, equalization of contributions.
