Figure 3

The effect of inbreeding on biased gene conversion (BGC). (a) The consequences of BGC for GC content for outcrossing populations (S = 0) and highly self-crossing populations (S = 0.99). The results are shown with no mutational bias (u/v = 1) or with a mutational bias towards AT (u/v = 2). (b) The GC content expected for various selfing rates with no (4N _e ω = 0), moderate (4N _e ω = 1) or strong (4N _e ω = 5) BGC. The mutational bias was set to 2. See Materials and methods for details of the model.