GENECONV: Statistical Tests for Detecting Gene Conversion Gene conversion is any process that causes a segment of DNA to be copied onto another segment of DNA, or else appears to act in this way. The target segment can be on the same chromosome, on a different chromosome, or in a different organism. Short-segment gene conversion is an important force in evolution, and often takes place at a higher frequency than does point mutation. Given an alignment of DNA or protein sequences, GENECONV finds the most likely candidates for aligned gene conversion events between pairs of sequences in the alignment. The program can also look for gene conversion events from outside of the alignment. Candidate events are ranked by multiple-comparison corrected P-values and listed to a spreadsheet-like output file. IMPORTANT: You may get a "Segmentation fault" when running the program; the problem arises only when GENECONV writes to its log file (e.g. myfile.nex.sum), as opposed to its main output file myfile.nex.frags; the easiest workaround is to run GENECONV with the -nolog option: geneconv myfile.nex -nolog CITING: For references and citation information, check the documentation folder of the package.