rho/theta--> total recombination events?

[pneumowidow]

Hi,

Since rho/theta corresponds to the ratio of the number of recombination events to point mutations on a branch, I just wanted to confirm that in order to calculate the number of recombination events on a branch, we would have to multiply rho/theta with the average no of snps per site from the final tree? For example if my rho/theta for a node is 0.4 and my final tree gives 200 as the average number of substitutions per site (branch length), then the number of recombination events on that branch would be 0.4*200 = 80 ?

Did I get that right or should I use the total snps found on that node (irrespective of whether it arose from recombination or not).

Thank you in advance.

[pneumowidow]

I finally figured it out. The recombination events are the recombination blocks and the point mutations refers to the SNPs outside of recombination. The division of these 2 values gives the rho/theta value.