Fig. 7
Effective population size estimates obtained for the Gorongosa, Marromeu, and Namaacha populations. Left panel: median Ne and 95% confidence intervals based on Site Frequency Spectrum (SFS). The three populations show a similar shape of Ne through time. Notably, all three populations show a Ne decrease starting at approximately around 50 ka. All three populations show a constant decrease of Ne until recent times without any signature of population expansion in recent times. Right panel: the recent Ne trend obtained using linkage disequilibrium in SNeP software is coherent with what we observed using the SFS method. All the populations show a Ne decrease also in recent times reaching a very low Ne (see Table 3)