Fig. 3
From: Phenotypic plasticity promotes recombination and gene clustering in periodic environments
Stationary distribution of the recombination rate r between the plasticity and the target locus. We assume that the recombination rate is encoded by an unlinked recombination modifier subject to recurrent mutation in a population of N = 25,000, with C = 10 and s max = 0.5 (a), C = 20 and s max = 0.25 (b), C = 40 and s max = 0.15 (c), and 80 and s max = 0.15 (d) (broken line indicates results with weaker selection, s max/2). The tick on the horizontal axis denotes the ES recombination rate (r*) predicted by the deterministic stability analysis. Nµ = 0.1. One thousand replicate simulations were run for a 100 N burn-in generations (where the distribution stabilized) and the stationary distribution was recorded over the next 100 N generations. When the strength of selection at the target locus is reduced (by a factor of two, dotted lines), the distribution of recombination rates becomes slightly broader, but remains centered around the ES rate. The tick mark on the y axis on the bottom right panel indicates height of the y axis in the other panels
