Table 3 Demographic modeling parameter estimates for each of eight 2-population models.

From: Hierarchical genetic structure and implications for conservation of the world’s largest salmonid, Hucho taimen

Model description

Model #

Growth parameters

Ne

Ancestral Ne

Tdivergence (generations)

Migration

ΔModel likelihood

ΔAIC

TU

TT

TU

TT

TU → TT

TT → TU

2 Population with gene flow

1

0

40,999

10,058

446,164

28,480

0.00356

0.00435

31.13

(38,052–43,946)

(7998–12,119)

(398,862–493,466)

(23,685–33,276)

(0.00279–0.00434)

(0.00386–0.00485)

2

0

3302

83,980

734,783

5046

0.00251

0.59000

39.68

39.36

3

47,370

81,411

253,462

53,643

0.00377

0.00027

36.32

23.88

4

+

+

21,677

72,582

380,356

2587

0.00702

0.00574

35.73

21.17

5

0

+

505

54,433

743,812

2274

0.00489

0.00605

38.05

31.84

6

+

0

18,046

7769

816,466

5739

0.00170

0.00401

36.72

25.73

7

0

0

687

1724

523,521

1247

0.00596

0.00464

35.67

20.88

2 Population

8

0

0

435

791

110,201

38

136.83

484.7

  1. TU refers to Tugur mainstem, while TT refers to Tugur tributaries.
  2. Growth parameters for each population represent expansion (+), contraction (−), and no change (0) following the ancestral divergence.
  3. Model numbers correspond to those in Fig. 4
  4. For the best fit model (model 1), 95% confidence intervals are given in parentheses.