In 2024, Millennials were the largest generation group in the United States, making up about 21.81 percent of the population. However, Generation Z was not far behind, with Gen Z accounting for around 20.81 percent of the population in that year.

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AbstractEffective population size is a fundamental parameter in population genetics, evolutionary biology and conservation biology, yet its estimation can be fraught with difficulties. Several methods to estimate Ne from genetic data have been developed which take advantage of various approaches for inferring Ne. The ability of these methods to accurately estimate Ne, however, has not been comprehensively examined. In this study, we employ seven of the most cited methods for estimating Ne from genetic data (Colony2, CoNe, Estim, MLNe, ONeSAMP, TMVP, and NeEstimator including LDNe) across simulated datasets with populations experiencing migration or no migration. The simulated population demographies are an isolated population with no immigration, an island model metapopulation with a sink population receiving immigrants, and an isolation by distance stepping stone model of populations. We find considerable variance in performance of these methods, both within and across demographic scenarios, with some methods performing very poorly. The most accurate estimates of Ne can be obtained by using LDNe, MLNe, or TMVP; however each of these approaches is outperformed by another in a differing demographic scenario. Knowledge of the approximate demography of population as well as the availability of temporal data largely improves Ne estimates. Usage notesNe500_IdealRawPopulationFilesThese are the "true" population files for ideal (isolation) populations of size 500 simulated from Nemo. They contain all individuals and many extra loci, from which these were sampled to obtain the inputs used in analyses (see Program_InputFiles). Temporal samplers used two time points, from which the files here are identified as belonging to generation 0 or generation 1.Ideal500_Raw.zipNe5000_IdealRawPopulationFilesThese are the "true" population files for ideal (isolation) populations of size 5000 simulated from Nemo. They contain all individuals and many extra loci, from which these were sampled to obtain the inputs used in analyses (see Program_InputFiles). Temporal samplers used two time points, from which the files here are identified as belonging to generation 0 or generation 1.Ideal5000_Raw.zipNe50_Generation0_IdealRawPopulationFilesThese are the "true" population files for ideal (isolation) populations of size 50 simulated from Nemo. They contain all individuals and many extra loci, from which these were sampled to obtain the inputs used in analyses (see Program_InputFiles). Temporal samplers used two time points, from which the files here are identified as belonging to generation 0 or generation 1.Ideal50_Gen0.zipNe50_Generation1_IdealRawPopulationFilesThese are the "true" population files for ideal (isolation) populations of size 50 simulated from Nemo. They contain all individuals and many extra loci, from which these were sampled to obtain the inputs used in analyses (see Program_InputFiles). Temporal samplers used two time points, from which the files here are identified as belonging to generation 0 or generation 1.Ideal50_Gen1.zipEstimationPrograms_FormattedInputFilesSee the ReadMe for further details. These are the input files formatted for each analysis program and are the population samples under analysis.Program_InputFiles.zipProgramOutputFilesFor_Colony_Estim_MLNe_NeEstimator_ONeSamp_TMVPThese are the Ne estimates output by the various programs. See the readme for file naming conventions. Because of their large size, CoNe output files are stored separately.Colony_Estim_MLNe_NeEstimator_ONeSamp_TMVP_OutputFiles.zipCoNe_Ideal_OutputFilesThese are outputs for Cone Ideal (isolation) population cases. See the Readme for file naming conventions.CoNe_Mig50_OutputFilesCoNe Ne estimation output files for Migration scenarios with true Ne = 50. See the same readme for other input/output files for naming conventions.CoNe_Mig500_OutputFilesCoNe Ne estimation output files for Migration scenarios with true Ne = 500. See the same readme for other input/output files for naming conventions.CoNe_IBD50_OutputFilesCoNe Ne estimation output files for IBD scenarios with true Ne = 50. See the same readme for other input/output files for naming conventions.CoNe_IBD500_OutputFilesCoNe Ne estimation output files for IBD scenarios with true Ne = 500. See the same readme for other input/output files for naming conventions.ParamFiles_ConversionAndAnalysisScriptsSee the Readme files contained within each subfolder. These are the input files used for nemo simulations (Migration and IBD raw simulation files were >80GB in size when compressed, and may be requested from KJ Gilbert). Otherwise, these input files contain the parameters used in Nemo v2.2.0 to create the raw population files from which individuals were sampled. R scripts for file conversion to the various program inputs as well as for analyzing the various outputs are also included, but are also made public on GitHub at:...

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Energy generation data and map are from the California Energy Commission for all power plants that have a nameplate capacity of 1MW or more. Small hydroelectric plants are designated as a renewable energy source if their nameplate capacity is more than 30MW, it is classified as a large hydroelectric plant. Counties without symbols either did not report data or had no utility-scale hydroelectric power generation. Data is from 2022 and is current as of July 10, 2023.

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The relationship between population size, inbreeding, loss of genetic variation and evolutionary potential of fitness traits is still unresolved, and large-scale empirical studies testing theoretical expectations are surprisingly scarce. Here we present a highly replicated experimental evolution setup with 120 lines of Drosophila melanogaster having experienced inbreeding caused by low population size for a variable number of generations. Genetic variation in inbred lines and in outbred control lines was assessed by genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) of pooled samples consisting of 15 males per line. All lines were reared on a novel stressful medium for 10 generations during which body mass, productivity, and extinctions were scored in each generation. In addition, we investigated egg-to-adult viability in the benign and the stressful environments before and after rearing at the stressful conditions for 10 generations. We found strong positive correlations between levels of genetic variation and evolutionary response in all investigated traits, and showed that genomic variation was more informative in predicting evolutionary responses than population history reflected by expected inbreeding levels. We also found that lines with lower genetic diversity were at greater risk of extinction. For viability, the results suggested a trade-off in the costs of adapting to the stressful environments when tested in a benign environment. This work presents convincing support for long-standing evolutionary theory, and it provides novel insights into the association between genetic variation and evolutionary capacity in a gradient of diversity rather than dichotomous inbred/outbred groups.

Generation length of the world's amphibians and reptiles

https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.w0vt4b93t

Description of the data and file structure

Files and variables

File: amphibian_full_data.csv

Description:

Variables

• scientificName: (character) species binomial
• generation_length_y: (numeric) average generation length in years
• source_GL: (character) source of generation length
• generation_length_y.pgls: (numeric) average generation length in years predicted by PGLS
• generation_length_y.gam: (numeric) average generation length in years predicted by GAM
• Body_mass_g: (numeric) species body mass in grams, NAs represent missing data
• source_bodymass: (character) source of body mass, NAs represent missing data
• SVL_mm: (numeric) species snout-vent length in mm, NAs represent missing data
• source_SVL: (character) source of SVL, NAs represent missing data
• bio01: (numeric) annual temperature in °C
• bio04: (n...

Energy generation data and map are from the California Energy Commission and include utility scale power plants, with a nameplate capacity of 1MW or more. Small hydroelectric plants are designated as renewable energy sources. Large hydroelectric plants are classified as nonrenewable. Counties without symbols either did not have plants reporting data or had no utility-scale hydroelectric power generation. Data is for2020 and is current as of July 15, 2022. For more information, contact Rebecca Vail at (916) 477-0738 or John Hingtgen at (916) 510-9747.

Effective population size (Ne) over generations based on linkage disequilibrium calculations.

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Overview

Coalescence rates, allele ages, and p-values for evidence of positive selection calculated for 2478 samples of the 1000 Genomes Project using Relate.

We estimated the joint genealogy of all 1000 GP populations and then extracted the embedded genealogy for each population.
For the genealogy of each population, we jointly estimated the population size history and branch lengths.
Variants segregating in more than one population therefore have correlated but different allele ages in each population.

Please refer to Speidel et al. Nature Genetics (2019) for more details or email leo.speidel@outlook.com for any queries.

Coalescence rates

The zipped directory coalescence_rates.zip contains coalescence rates for 26 populations in the 1000 Genomes Project data set.

• The .coal files show the haploid coalescence rates, please refer to the Relate documentation for the file format.
• The popsize.RData file is an R data frame storing the diploid population sizes (0.5/coalescence rate) calculated using the .coal files. The columns of this data frame, named "pop_size", are
  • gens_ago: Time in generations at which epoch starts. (To get years from generations, we multiply by 28.)
  • population_size: Diploid population size in this epoch.
  • population: Name of population
  • region: Name of region (AFR, AMR, EAS, EUR, SAS)

Allele ages and selection p-values

The zipped directories allele_ages_*.zip contain R data frames for each 1000GP population storing allele ages and selection p-values.
Please note that only mutations that segregate in the population and map to a unique branch in the Relate-estimated marginal trees are included. Selection p-values are only provided for mutations of DAF > 2 that pass quality filters (see Speidel et al., 2019).

To get an age estimate for a neutral mutation, use 0.5*(lower_age + upper_age). To get years from generations, we multiply by 28.

The columns of these data frames, named "allele_ages", are

• CHR: chromosome index
• BP: base-pair position (GRCh37)
• ID: id of SNP
• lower_age: Age in generations of coalescence event at the lower end of the branch onto which the mutation maps
• upper_age: Age in generations of coalescence event at the upper end of the branch onto which the mutation maps
• ancestral/derived: Ancestral/derived allele
• upstream: Upstream (5') allele
• downstream: Downstream (3') allele
• DAF: Derived-allele frequency
• pvalue: log10 p-value for selection evidence

Genome-wide estimates of effective population size from 1 to 200 generations in the past based on estimates of linkage disequilibrium.