FIG. 9.
Method to detect association among loci in individuals characterized by multilocus genotypes, i.e., distinguishing between clonal and recombining organisms by using the distribution of pairwise comparisons of their multilocus genotypes. (a) Distance matrices from all pairwise comparison for clonal and recombining organisms. (b) Bar graph of the frequency distribution of pairwise distances among multilocus genotypes for clonal and recombining organisms. Clonal organisms have an excess of close and distant distances and a high variance. Recombining organisms have a more normal distribution and a low variance. (c) Comparison of the rescaled variance (IA) of clonal and recombining organisms to IAs for 1,000 artificially recombined data sets. Note that the IA of the clonal data is significantly higher than the distribution of IAs for the artificially recombined data sets, while the IA for the recombining organism is close to the mean of the IAs for the artificially recombined data sets.