Table 2. Recombination events detected within genes of large gene families in Brazil A4 and Y C6.

	Brazil A4				Y C6				CL Brener
	TS	MASP	Mucin	GP63	TS	MASP	Mucin	GP63	TS
# of genes	1644	1118	700	411	1465	1066	797	427	3209
Kb length total	3477.7	1011.9	352.1	460.6	2614.5	1115.2	458.9	619.7	4456.5
# of genes recombined	793	145	38	70	479	154	73	89	787
# of recombination events	2976	190	39	101	1334	221	85	153	2087
% of genes recombined	48.2	13.0	5.4	17.0	32.7	14.4	9.2	20.8	24.5
Average events per gene	1.8	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.9	0.2	0.1	0.4	0.7
Average events per kb	0.9	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.5	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.5
Number of genes with ‘n’ number of recombination events
n = 1	137	111	37	51	162	110	61	58	324
n = 2	198	24	1	15	114	28	12	19	149
n = 3	98	9	0	1	66	11	0	3	110
n = 4	128	1	0	1	54	3	0	6	72
n = 5	68	0	0	1	33	2	0	1	52
n>5	164	0	0	1	50	0	0	2	80
Max of n	18	4	2	5	12	5	2	6	12

Max of n: the highest number of recombination events detected for one gene.