TABLE 1
Symbols and abbreviations used
| ARG | Ancestral recombination graph |
| f | The relative contribution of gene conversion vs. crossing over, f = ρg/ρc |
 | A composite-likelihood estimate of f (Hudson 2001) |
 | A pattern-matching-based estimate of f (cf. Padhukasahasram et al. 2004) |
| h | Observed number of haplotypes |
| l | Locus length |
| L | Tract length |
| LD | Linkage disequilibrium |
| LPAC | The PAC likelihood function (Li and Stephens 2003) |
| PAC | The product of approximate conditionals (Li and Stephens 2003) |
| μ | The per generation rate of mutation |
| n | Number of sampled chromosomes |
| r | The per generation rate of recombination |
 Lamarc | An estimate of the per generation rate of recombination (Kuhner et al. 2000) |
| Rh | An estimate of the number of recombination events at a locus (Myers and Griffiths 2003) |
| Rl | An estimate of the number of recombination events at a locus (Song et al. 2005) |
| Rm | An estimate of the number of recombination events at a locus (Hudson and Kaplan 1985) |
| Rs | An estimate of the number of recombination events at a locus (Myers and Griffiths 2003) |
| Ru | An estimate of the number of recombination events at a locus (Song et al. 2005) |
| ρ | The population recombination parameter, 4Ner |
| ρc | The population recombination parameter due to crossover |
| ρg | The population recombination parameter due to gene conversion |
 FD02 | An approximate-likelihood estimate of ρ (Fearnhead and Donnelly 2002) |
 H01 | A composite-likelihood estimate of ρ (Hudson 2001) |
 Lamarc | A full-likelihood estimate of ρ (Kuhner et al. 2002) |
 LS03 | The PAC-likelihood estimate of ρ (Li and Stephens 2003) |
 MAF02 | A composite-likelihood estimate of ρ (McVean et al. 2002) |
 T05 | A summary statistic-based estimate of ρ (Haddrill et al. 2005) |
 W00 | A summary statistic-based estimate of ρ (Wall 2000) |
| s | The rate of self-fertilization |
| S | Number of segregating sites |
| Sp | Number of parsimony informative segregating sites |
| T | Tajima's D (Tajima 1989) |
| θ | The population mutation parameter, 4Neμ |
 FD02 | θ coestimated with ρ (Fearnhead and Donnelly 2002) |
 Lamarc | θ coestimated with ρ (Kuhner et al. 2002) |
 π | An estimate of θ based on pairwise differences (Tajima 1983) |
 T05 | θ coestimated with ρ (Haddrill et al. 2005) |
 W | An estimate of θ based on the number segregating sites (Watterson 1975) |