Table 5 Marginal populations’ demographic history estimation statistics (mean, median, mode) of the posterior distribution for the parameters ancestral effective population size (Nanc), and the effective population size (Ne) after a bottleneck event at time 1 (t1), including their 95% CI under the best model (Scenario 1). Values interpreted and discussed in the paper are those of the mode (bold)

Southern

 mean

12,000

17.5

16.1

140 (105–175)

1880 (1845–1915)

 median

12,500

13.6

14

109 (82–136)

1911 (1884–1938)

 mode

17,700

8.89

10

71 (53–89)

1949 (1931–1967)

 95% CI

1,810–19,600

5.6–43.4

10–35.4

44.8–347.2

1648–1975

Eastern

 mean

6,020

5.73

6.6

46 (34–57)

1974 (1963–1986)

 median

6,210

5.06

4.93

40 (30–51)

1980 (1969–1990)

 mode

9,730

5

3

40 (30–50)

1980 (1970–1990)

 95% CI

961–9,860

5–9.27

3–18.9

40–74

1946–1980

Northern

 mean

9,920

4.5

1.67

36 (27–45)

1984 (1975–1993)

 median

9,770

2.9

1

23 (17–29)

1997 (1991–2003)

 mode

8,370

1

1

8 (6–10)

2012 (2010–2014)

 95% CI

952–19,500

1–16.8

1–4.48

8–134.4

1886–2012