Fig 4. Estimated demographic history with selfing and seed banking.

Demographic history estimated by eSMC for ten replicates using four simulated sequences of 10 Mb under a saw-tooth demographic scenario and four different combinations of germination (β) and self-fertilization (σ) rates but resulting in the same $\frac{\rho }{\theta }$. Mutation and recombination rates are set to 2.5 × 10⁻⁸ per generation per bp, giving $\frac{r}{\mu }=1$. The four combinations are: a) σ = 0.4 and β = 0.25, b) σ = 0.75 and β = 0.6, c) σ = 0.85 and β = 1 and d) σ = 0 and β = 0.15. Hence, for each scenario $\frac{\rho }{\theta }=0.15$ For each combination of β and σ, eSMC was launched with five different prior settings: ignoring seed-banks and self-fertilization (red), accounting for seed-banks and self-fertilization but without setting priors (blue), accounting for seed-banks and self-fertilization with a prior set only for the self-fertilization rate (green), only for the germination rate (orange) or for both (purple). σ* and β* respectively represent the estimated self-fertilization and germination rate.