Table 1

Recombination rates for highly and less highly conserved regions

Recombination rate (cM/Mb)

Highly conserved regions

2.05

Less highly conserved regions

2.24

Highly conserved non-coding regions

2.54

Less highly conserved non-coding regions

2.98

Highly conserved coding rich-regions

0.62

Less highly conserved coding rich-regions

1.46

Small genes

1.78

These regions correspond to the regions in Figure 1D, in which we used highly and less highly conserved regions, highly and less highly non-coding conserved regions, and regions enriched (>20% in the bases) with highly and less highly conserved coding regions. As in Figure 1D, we selected only regions where the proportion of repeats was <20%, and since after this adjustment we found outliers of LD related to extreme GC-content, we further selected regions where the GC-content was 45–65%. For reference, we list the recombination rate in small genes with sizes up to 1000 bps and with the same conditions as to repeat proportion and GC-content. The average recombination rate in the genome was 1.33 cM/Mb.

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