The establishment of a new population involves phases of founding and recovery leading to long-term persistence. During each stage, the random sampling effect of drift has the potential to affect the degree of genetic diversity and divergence exhibited by a population . When populations are founded by few individuals, and especially when combined with longer population recovery times, there is the potential for loss of genetic variation-a "founder effect" (Nei et al., 1975;Wright, 1931). Loss of diversity has important implications on several fronts. For example, it may limit responses to new adaptive landscapes via loss of potentially adaptive