TABLE 4.
Recombination within species
| Group (no. of strains) | Rm | Coalescence simulationa |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rm avg | 95% confidence interval | P ≤ observed Rm | ||
| Off-island genes | ||||
| B. japonicum (22) | 20 | 3.44 | 1, 7 | 1.00 |
| B. diazoefficiens (11) | 6 | 4.35 | 1, 8 | 0.86 |
| B. yuanmingense (10) | 22 | 9.42 | 3, 16 | 1.00 |
| Bradyrhizobium sp. III (8) | 5 | 3.27 | 0, 7 | 0.89 |
| B. elkanii (10) | 5 | 0.85 | 0, 3 | 1.00 |
| Island genes | ||||
| B. japonicum (22) | 0 | 1.07 | 0, 3 | 0.29 |
| B. diazoefficiens (11) | 0 | 0.058 | 0, 2 | 0.58 |
| B. yuanmingense (10) | 4 | 0.001 | 0, 0 | 1.0 |
| Bradyrhizobium sp. III (8) | 1 | 0.0 | 0, 0 | 1.0 |
| B. elkanii (10) | 0 | 0.008 | 0, 0 | 0.992 |
a
Neutral coalescence simulations given the number of segregating sites with an intermediate level of recombination.