Figure 4.

Estimated Strength of Biased Gene Conversion

After correcting for mutation rate differences, relative rates of fixation were used to estimate the population-scaled strength of gBGC.

(A) Curves describe the mathematical relationship between Nb and r for WS sites (red, Equation 5) and SW sites (blue, Equation 6). Circles denote genome-wide estimates of Nb from empirical data (0.0934 for WS sites and 0.0523 for SW sites).

(B) Effects of different recombination rate quintiles on the population-scaled strength of gBGC.