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Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
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Fraction of mutation events that are multi-step changes | vertebrates | 5 - 75 | % | 112165 | Ellegren H. Microsatellites:... |
Potentially mutagenic lesions in DNA | Mammals | ~20,000 | lesions/diploid cell/day | 112657 | Preston BD, Albertson TM... |
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... |
Elemental composition of hypometabolic and active E. coli K12 forms | Bacteria Escherichia coli | Table - link | N/A | 105288 | Margulis AB, Voloshin AV... |
mRNA half-lives of β-actin gene | Mouse Mus musculus | in growth hormone 3 cell 3.70±0.76hours: in C8 cell 3.92±0.77 | hours | 115285 | Takeshige K et al., Cytosolic... |
mRNA half-lives of growth hormone gene | Mouse Mus musculus | in growth hormone 3 cell 3.12±0.64hours: in C8 cell 3.48±0.71 | hours | 115286 | Takeshige K et al., Cytosolic... |
Transformation efficiency-upper limit | Bacteria Escherichia coli | 1e+10 | transformants/µg plasmid | 105714 | Mueller-Cajar O, Morell M... |
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... |
Mutation rate per genome per replication | Bacteria Escherichia coli | 2.5e-3 (Table - link) | mutation/genome/replication | 106748 | Drake JW, Charlesworth B... |
Mutation rate per base pair per generation | Mouse Mus musculus | 1.1E-08 | mutation/bp/generation | 106792 | Drake JW, Charlesworth B... |
Mutation rate per genome per replication | Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | 0.058 (Table - link) | mutation/genome/replication | 100370 | Drake JW, Charlesworth B... |
Mutation rate per base pair per replication | Bacteriophage Lambda | 7.7E-08 (Table - link) | mutation/bp/replication | 100220 | Drake JW, Charlesworth B... |
Mutation rate per genome per replication | Bacteriophage Lambda | 0.0038 (Table - link) | mutation/genome/replication | 100222 | Drake JW, Charlesworth B... |
Spontaneous mutation rate | Thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana | 7.1E-09 (±0.7E-09) | substitution/site/generation | 105036 | Stephan Ossowski, Korbinian... |
Typical fraction of mutations that are most deleterious | Unspecified | <1 | % | 111338 | Lee H, Popodi E, Tang H... |
Spontaneous mutation rate | Bacteria Escherichia coli | ~0.001 (or 2.2×10^−10 mutations/nucleotide/generation) | mutations/genome/generation | 111339 | Lee H, Popodi E, Tang H... |
Mutation rate estimated using classical fluctuation tests, scoring for resistance to rifampicin (Rif R) and to nalidixic acid (Nal R) | Bacteria Escherichia coli | (Rif R) 0.33×10^−10 (Nal R) 0.21×10^−10 | mutations/nucleotide/generation | 111340 | Lee H, Popodi E, Tang H... |
Elemental composition of hypometabolic and active M. lysodeikticus | Bacteria Micrococcus luteus | Table - link | N/A | 105289 | Margulis AB, Voloshin AV... |
Mutation rate per base pair per generation | Human Homo sapiens | 2.5E-08 | Mutation/bp/generation | 100414 | Nachman MW, Crowell SL.... |
Mutation rate per base pair per replication | Bacteriophage M13 | 7.2E-07 | mutation/bp/replication | 100224 | Drake JW, Charlesworth B... |