Figure 5

Performance of eBURST for a population simulated with a high rate of recombination. All 1000 isolates from an equilibrium population simulated with ρ = 10, θ = 1 were displayed as ancestry groups (A) and eBURST groups (B). The large eBURST group (Group 1) includes many unrelated ancestry groups, which are numbered. C) All of the additional SLV links are shown in pink for the largest eBURST group (Group 1). The arrow shows an example of a long-range SLV link. D) The groups of STs within eBURST Group 1 that correspond to the ancestry groups are shown, numbered as in (A). The eBURST group is the same at that in (B), except that subgroups and STs have been moved relative to each other to be able to show better the relationship with the ancestry groups. Arrows show examples of STs within a radial eBURST subgroup that should be in different ancestry groups. See Figure 3 for details. Further description of Figure 5 is available as additional files.