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Table 3 Mutation rate in viruses.

From: Moderate mutation rate in the SARS coronavirus genome and its implications

Organism

Mutation rate

Ref.

ssRNA positive-strand viruses (coronaviruses)

  

   Mouse hepatitis virus

0.44 – 2.77 × 10-2 per site per year

[6]

   Transmissible gastroenteritis virus

0.7 × 10-3 per site per year

[7]

   Infectious bronchitis virus

0.67 – 1.33 × 10-5 per site per year

[8]

ssRNA positive-strand viruses (non-coronaviruses)

  

   Hepatitis C virus

0.82 × 10-3 per site per year

[9]

   GBV-C/HGV

3.9 × 10-3 per site per year

[10]

   Foot-and-mouth disease virus

6 ×10-3 per site per year

[11]

ssRNA negative-strand viruses

  

   Influenza A virus

2.28 × 10-3 per site per year

[12]

 

2.3 × 10-3 per site per year

[13]

   Infectious salmon anaemia virus

0.96 × 10-3 per site per year

[14]

   Measles virus

0.9 × 10-4 per site per generation

[15]

Retroviruses

  

   HIV-1

1.7 × 10-3 per site per year

[16]

 

1.62 × 10-2 per site per year

[17]

   SIVagm virus

0.4 – 7.2 × 10-2 per site per year

[18]

   Bovine leukemia virus

4.8 × 10-6 per site per generation

[19]

   Human T-cell leukemia virus

1.2 × 10-5 per site per generation

[19]

   Visna virus

1.7 × 10-3 per site per year

[20]