Direct sequencing estimates of mutation rates (total)
| Value | 8.4E-09 mutations/site/generation Range: Table - link mutations/site/generation |
|---|---|
| Organism | Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster |
| Reference | Kondrashov FA, Kondrashov AS. Measurements of spontaneous rates of mutations in the recent past and the near future. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2010 Apr 27 365(1544):1169-76. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0286. p.1172 table 1PubMed ID20308091 |
| Primary Source | Haag-Liautard, C., Dorris, M., Maside, X., Macaskill, S., Halligan, D. L., Houle, D., Charlesworth, B. & Keightley, P. D. 2007 Direct estimation of per nucleotide and genomic deleterious mutation rates in Drosophila. Nature 445, 82–85. (doi:10.1038/nature05388)PubMed ID17203060 |
| Method | "As far as quantitative estimates of mutation rate are concerned, a large fraction of them have been obtained in recent studies that use a multigeneration direct sequencing approach (table 1)." |
| Comments | P.1171 right column bottom paragraph. See "comments" column. |
| Entered by | Uri M |
| ID | 109990 |