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Table 6 Population size and critical mutation rate in viruses. Correlation (r = 0.636, P = 0.125) between the experimentally calculated genomic mutation rate (μg) and genomic size of some RNA viruses (adapted from [35]).

From: Validating viral quasispecies with digital organisms: a re-examination of the critical mutation rate

Virus

Size (kb)

μg

Lytic RNA viruses

  

   VSV [27]

11.2

1.07

   Poliovirus [36]

7.4

0.81

   Influenza A virus [36]

13.6

0.99

Retroviruses [37]

  

   Spleen necrosis virus

7.8

0.16

   Molony murine leukemia virus

8.4

0.029

   Rous sarcoma virus

9.3

0.43

   HIV-1 [38]

9.2

0.22