Competition between a recombining (#1) and non-recombining population (#2): effects of the recombination rate, fitness costs and the initial frequency of the recombining population on the outcome of competition.

Number of times each population Wins (the density of the competing population falls below 105) or is Winning (is the dominant population at the 2000th generation) in 100 runs. TF is the mean number of generations before the density of the losing population falls below 105 ±SE. In these simulations the at the start of each run the #1 and #2 populations have genetically different populations.
In all these simulations, μ = 10−8, c = 0.5, e = 1.0, and NT = 2×108 and for the experimental populations the recombination rate parameter χ and fitness costs, s, are for the recombining #1 population.
*significant differences with p<0.002 for a Fisher exact test for the number of Wins of population #1 and #2 relative to the corresponding runs without recombination.
++significant, p<0.005 (Student's t-test comparing the TF between Population #1 and Population #2 in a given sent of runs).