Average recombination rates for recurrent-sweep simulations.

The accuracy of the recombination rate estimate for model RS3, containing infrequent but strong selective sweeps, was considerably worse than that for model RS1, containing frequent but weaker selective sweeps. The mean number of SNPs in model RS3 was a factor of less than that in the selectively neutral “Control” model, thus reducing the ability to perform accurate statistical inference of recombination. See Simulation study on the impact of natural selection for the details of the models. For each recombination landscape, the median estimated average recombination rate is shown in the left column (“est. ”) and the percent error is shown in the right (“% err. ”). The true average recombination rate for each recombination landscape is shown in parenthesis.