Frequencies of early silencing-loss events after a 1-hr HO induction in in wild-type colonies (JRY10817) that (A) did not exhibit gene conversion and (B) exhibited at least partial gene conversion, and swi2∆10R colonies (JRY10820) that (C) did not exhibit gene conversion and (D) exhibited at least partial gene conversion at each of the three SNPs distinguishing pseudo-MAT and HML::cre. Partial gene conversion events were scored as above. The means and SD of three independent biological replicates are shown in each panel.