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Table 1 Some estimates of mutation parameters from previous experiments on microbes

From: Impacts of mutation effects and population size on mutation rate in asexual populations: a simulation study

 

Deleterious

Beneficial

 

Taxon

p d

s d ¯

p b

s b ¯

Reference

Vesicular stomatitis virus

29.2%

0.24

4.2%

0.042

Sanjuan et al. (2004)a[29]

Tobacco etch potyvirus

36.4%

0.41

0

0

Carrasco et al. (2007)b[30]

S. cerevisiae

-

0.22

-

-

Zeyl and DeVisser (2001)[2]

Diploid S. cerevisiae

-

-

5.75%

0.061

Joseph and Hall (2004)[31]

E. coli

-

-

-

0.02

Imhof and Schlotterer (2001)[32]

E. coli

-

-

-

0.054

Hegreness et al. (2006)[33]

E. coli

-

-

0.67%c

0.01

Perfeito et al. (2007)[34]

P. fluorescens

-

-

-

0.023~0.089

Kassen and Bataillon (2006)[35]

  1. a, b: in both studies, p d does not include lethal mutations.
  2. c: p b is 1/150, compared to Drake's famous genome mutation rate 0.0034[13].