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Drosophila pseudoobscura from the cundiboyacense Altiplano presents a populational structure consisting in small demes subjected to extinction, recolonization and migration. Whether or not population dynamics can be explained "under a neutral frame is a matter of discussion in this paper. A mathematical model predicting the expected effective number of alleles under the neutral hypothesis is reviewed. The model does not present any variance calculations, and requires stochastic independence between the intrademe gene identity and the inverse of the effective population size.
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