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Property Organism Value Units ID Details
Potentially mutagenic lesions in DNA Mammals ~20,000 lesions/diploid cell/day 112657 Preston BD, Albertson TM...
Mitochondrial DNA mutation rate Human Homo sapiens ~2.7×10^-5 substitutions/site/generation 111228 Schneider S, Excoffier...
Mutation rate per base pair per replication Human Homo sapiens 5E-11 (Table - link) Mutation/bp/replication 105095 Drake JW, Charlesworth B...
Mitochondrial DNA mutation rate calibrated by the divergence between humans and chimpanzees Human Homo sapiens ~3×10^-6 substitutions/site/generation of 20 years 111227 Schneider S, Excoffier...
Mutation rate per base pair per generation Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster 8.5E-09 mutation/bp/generation 106793 Drake JW, Charlesworth B...
Fraction of mutation events that are multi-step changes vertebrates 5 - 75 % 112165 Ellegren H. Microsatellites:...
Spontaneous base loss Unspecified ~10,000 bases/cell/day 113506 Gangloff S, Arcangioli...
Number of abasic sites (AP) lesions that persist at a steady-state level at normal physiological conditions Mammals 50,000 - 200,000 lesions 113507 Gangloff S, Arcangioli...
DNA–DNA surface separation Bacteriophage Lambda 7 Å 111740 Liu T et al., Solid-...
Mutation rate per base pair per replication (very old estimate, see below) Bacteria Escherichia coli 5.4E-10 (Table - link) mutation/bp/replication 100263 Drake JW, A constant...
Mutation rate (from whole-genome sequencing studies of family trios) Human Homo sapiens ~1×10^−8 to 1.5×10^−8 mutations/site/generation 112456 Rahbari R et al., Timing...
Average addition of de novo mutations (DNM) in the child with every additional year in father's age Human Homo sapiens ~2 (on average 2.9 DNM with each additional year in parents' ages) additional mutations per paternal year 112457 Rahbari R et al., Timing...
Mutation rate Human Homo sapiens 1.28E-08 (1.13×10^−8 to 1.43×10^−8) mutations/site/generation 112459 Rahbari R et al., Timing...
Ratio of paternal to maternal germ line mutations Human Homo sapiens 3.5 unitless 112462 Rahbari R et al., Timing...
DNA replication rate of DNA polymerase II (slow-dna repair) Bacteria Escherichia coli 20-30 nucleotides/sec 104125 Bonner CA, Stukenberg PT...
Mutation rate per genome per replication Human Homo sapiens 0.16 (Table - link) mutation/genome/replication 100417 Drake JW, Charlesworth B...
Ratio between mitochondrial DNA and nuclear DNA Eukaryotes <= (<0.01) unitless 102917 Robin ED, Wong R. Mi...
Mitochondrial DNA African clawed frog Xenopus laevis 1e+8 genomes 100326 Gurdon and Wakefield...
DNA packaging Various Cells other than in sperm nuclei, in vivo ∼5–10% viral capsids 55% % 111739 Liu T et al., Solid-...
DNA mass per double stranded DNA virus Virus 0.09 fg dsDNA/virus 105851 Wommack KE, Colwell RR....