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. 2022 Apr 4;31(10):2814–2829. doi: 10.1111/mec.16433

TABLE 3.

Average number of recombination events per locus and the average proportion of loci with no recombination (in parentheses)

Tree
ρ
S=2
S=8
θ=0.0025
θ=0.01
θ=0.0025
θ=0.01
A01 analysis
Tree B (Figure 1a) 0.05 0.7 (0.49) 0.7 (0.48) 0.9 (0.42) 0.9 (0.41)
0.5 7.2 (0.00) 7.2 (0.00) 8.7 (0.00) 8.7 (0.00)
5 67.6 (0.00) 67.8 (0.00) 80.5 (0.00) 80.6 (0.00)
Tree U (Figure 1b) 0.05 0.7 (0.49) 0.7 (0.49) 0.9 (0.43) 0.9 (0.42)
0.5 7.1 (0.00) 7.1 (0.00) 8.5 (0.00) 8.6 (0.00)
5 66.5 (0.00) 66.4 (0.00) 79.3 (0.00) 79.5 (0.00)
A11 analysis
Shallow (Figure 2a) 0.05 0.5 (0.63) 0.5 (0.63) 0.6 (0.57) 0.6 (0.57)
0.5 4.7 (0.01) 4.7 (0.01) 5.7 (0.00) 5.7 (0.00)
5 45.2 (0.00) 45.1 (0.00) 53.9 (0.00) 53.6 (0.00)
Deep (Figure 2b) 0.05 0.2 (0.85) 0.2 (0.85) 0.3 (0.78) 0.3 (0.78)
0.5 1.6 (0.00) 1.6 (0.00) 2.5 (0.09) 2.5 (0.09)
5 15.8 (0.00) 15.9 (0.00) 24.6 (0.00) 24.5 (0.00)
A00 analysis
Tree B (Figure 3a) 0.05 0.6 (0.54) 0.6 (0.54) 0.8 (0.46) 0.8 (0.46)
0.5 6.2 (0.00) 6.2 (0.00) 7.8 (0.00) 7.7 (0.00)
5 58.8 (0.00) 58.8 (0.00) 72.4 (0.00) 72.4 (0.00)
Tree U (Figure 3b) 0.05 0.6 (0.57) 0.6 (0.56) 0.7 (0.49) 0.7 (0.48)
0.5 5.7 (0.00) 5.7 (0.00) 7.2 (0.00) 7.3 (0.00)
5 54.3 (0.00) 54.1 (0.00) 67.9 (0.00) 67.9 (0.00)

The results are averages over the 100 replicate data sets of L = 160 loci. The expected number of recombinations increases with the number of sequences (S) and is proportional to the recombination rate (ρ), but independent of the mutation rate (θ).