The phrase "accelerated rate of mutation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing genetics, evolution, or any field where changes in genetic material occur more quickly than usual.
Example: "The accelerated rate of mutation in the virus has raised concerns among scientists about its potential to evade vaccines."
Alternatives: "increased mutation rate" or "rapid mutation rate".
Phlox makes the startling discovery that the Valakians are slowly dying out, not from an easily curable medical condition, but because of a genetic disease which is experiencing an accelerated rate of mutation.
Other hypotheses would include the possibility that an accelerated rate of mutation among the African strains gave rise to their diversity, but there is no evidence to support this theory.
Genetic drift, an accelerated rate of mutation and lack of consistency between phylogeny and geography has already been observed for the enteric human-specific pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi [ 32].
The accelerated rate of mutations in venom proteins likely provides a competitive edge in predator-prey interactions [ 17].
Based on functional enrichment analysis of genes showing accelerated rates of mutation towards translationally inefficient codons, we suggest this selection may be acting to minimize stochastic noise in gene expression.
It is also important to note that there are minor changes in amino acid residues within the identical segments (highlighted in white in Additional file 1) and these changes are due to an accelerated rate of point mutations.
This is not only linked to its ancestral origins, but also because of its accelerated rate of evolution, which is associated with a high copy number that allows mutations to occur without lethal impact [ 6].
In sum, results from four different software packages, which determined dn/ds, ω, mutation hotspots, accelerated rates of nonsynonymous mutations, and positive selection, indicated that the primary reason for presence of variable regions in Ymf genes were accelerated rates of nonsynonymous mutations.
The rapid divergence of Ymf genes and elevated dn/ds ratios were primarily due to presence of regions with accelerated rates of nonsynonymous mutations (AdN), which were detected by SWAPSC.
This second approach was convenient for several reasons: i) The sliding window approach allows identifying regions of the proteins under diversifying selection, or other non-neutral selective constraints such as accelerated rates of evolution and mutation hotspots; and ii) SWAPSC accounts for nucleotide bias and for non-neutral evolution of synonymous sites.
