Fig. 8. Patterns in A. vaga genetic variation data versus different mechanisms of genetic exchange.

Note that although gene conversion and reciprocal mitotic recombination cannot increase the similarity between haplotypes harbored by different individuals and are not expected to create incongruent haplotype phylogenies where reciprocal closest counterparts of the two haplotypes of a single individual are found in two different individuals (as in Fig. 5; such cases are referred to as ‘incongruent haplotype phylogenies’ in this Figure), these processes might introduce ambiguous signals of haplotype groupings into phylogenies^4,15,18.