To relax the assumption of the number of replications during the 21 d, we calculated the recombination parameters assuming five or 20 generations. The effect of the number of generations on the estimates is linear: doubling the number of generations results in a halving of the recombination rate (detailed results not shown). For example, the average recombination rates r 1 , r 2 , and r 3 assuming 20 generations were equal to 0.05, 0.04, and 0.025, respectively (compare with values in Table 2 ), yielding per nucleotide per generation recombination rates of 1.9 3 10 À5 , 2.2 3 10 À5 and 1.6 3 10 À5 .