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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mutation rate (one mutation per 400 nucleotides) highest reported for any biological entity | Chrysanthemum chlorotic mottle viroid | 0.0025±0.0006 | mutation/site/replication cycle | 111984 | Gago S, Elena SF, Flores R... |
| Per-site mutation rate versus genome size for biological entities | Various | Figure - link | genome size/mutation rate | 111985 | Gago S, Elena SF, Flores R... |
| Size of genome (3 single stranded RNA molecules) | Cowpea Chlorotic Mottle Virus (CCMV) | 7.9 (3.1kb RNA-1: 2.7kb RNA-2: 2.1kb RNA-3 Table - link) | kb | 106457 | Ali A, Shafiekhani M... |
| Size of icosahedral virion | Cowpea Chlorotic Mottle Virus (CCMV) | 28 | nm | 106456 | Minten IJ, Ma Y, Hempenius MA... |
| Mutation rate | RNA viruses | 1 | mutation/genome/replication | 106247 | Anderson JP, Daifuku R... |
| Mutation rate in stationary phase | Bacteria Escherichia coli | ≈0.03 | deleterious mutations/genome/day | 108331 | Loewe L, Textor V, Scherer... |
| Mutation rate | Influenza | influenza A 2E-06: influenza B 0.6E-06 | mutations per site per infectious cycle | 101580 | Nobusawa E, Sato K. ... |
| Mutation rate | RNA viruses | 10^-3 to 10^-5 | Mutations/site/replication | 106248 | Domingo E, Holland JJ.... |
| Genomic mutation rate | Thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana | 0.28-0.42 | mutations per diploid genome per generation | 102439 | Schultz ST, Lynch M,... |
| Fraction of mutations that are lethal | Bacteria Escherichia coli | ~1 | % | 114862 | Lydia Robert, Jean Ollion... |
| Mutation rate | Plants | Spruce (Picea spp.) 2.2×10^-9: Oryza glaberrima (African rice) 1.8×10^-8 | mutations/base/year | 113650 | Nystedt B et al., The... |
| Size of viroid | Plants | ~250-400 | bases | 105571 | E. M. Tsagris, A. E.... |
| Average mutation rate | Poliovirus | transitions 2.5×10^-5 to 2.6×10^-4: transversions 1.2×10^-6 to 1.5×10^-5 | substitutions per site | 112261 | Acevedo A, Brodsky L... |
| Estimated mutation rate | RNA viruses | 10^-4 to 10^-6 | substitutions per base | 112262 | Acevedo A, Brodsky L... |
| 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... |
| Fraction of mutation events that are multi-step changes | vertebrates | 5 - 75 | % | 112165 | Ellegren H. Microsatellites:... |
| Mutation rate | Bacteria Escherichia coli | wild type ~0.0022: mutH mutant ~0.32 | mutation/hour | 114861 | Lydia Robert, Jean Ollion... |
| Mutation rate | Cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus spp. | 1E-10 | mutations/bp/generation | 113305 | Kashtan N et al., Single-cell... |
| Mutation rate in gag protein | HIV | 2.65e-3 (0.00187 - 0.00349) | substitutions/site/year | 113337 | Novitsky V, Wang R, Lagakos S... |
| Rate of beneficial mutation (Ua) | Bacteria Escherichia coli | 2E-05 | 1/genome/generation | 112768 | Perfeito L, Fernandes L... |