Value |
2.1E-08
mutations/site/generation
Range: Table - link mutations/site/generation
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Organism |
Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans |
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 |
Denver, D. R., Morris, K., Lynch, M. & Thomas, W. K. 2004 High mutation rate and predominance of insertions in the Caenorhabditis elegans nuclear genome. Nature 430, 679–682. (doi:10.1038/nature02697)PubMed ID15295601
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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 |
See "comments" column. |
Entered by |
Uri M |
ID |
109994 |