Mutation rate in poliovirus

Value 0.8 mutation/genome/replication Range: Table - link mutation/genome/replication
Organism Poliovirus
Reference Drake JW. The distribution of rates of spontaneous mutation over viruses, prokaryotes, and eukaryotes. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1999 May 18 870 :100-7 p.101 table 1PubMed ID10415476
Comments This equals to 1.07×10^-4 mut/nt/rep considering the 7500 nt single stranded RNA genome. See Thebaud et al 2010, PMID 19906671, p.811 table 1 for a rate of 4.5×10^-4 mut/nt/rep
Entered by Uri M
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