The phrase "average mutation rate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in scientific or biological contexts when discussing the typical frequency of mutations occurring in a given population or organism.
Example: "The average mutation rate in this species is significantly higher than in others, leading to greater genetic diversity."
Alternatives: "typical mutation rate" or "mean mutation rate".
Thus, weak mutator alleles generally result in only a small increase in the population average mutation rate, which is independent of the effects of the induced deleterious mutations.
Another is that it is sensitive to estimates of the generation time and average mutation rate as these are used to scale the TMRCA distribution into years.
The average mutation rate estimated over 7680 gametes was in the range reported within fish (3.9 × 10− 4) and did not compromise parentage analysis.
The average mutation rate following the acquisition of the mutS mutation increased dramatically by three-fold in the later isolates, including all isolates from P2 which was first identified 8 months after the P1M isolate which lacked the mutS mutation.
These clocks tick along at an average mutation rate in areas of DNA which are not being pushed around by natural selection.
Translation of parameters to absolute values, divergence times in years and population sizes in number of individuals, was done by assuming an average mutation rate of µ = 1e−8 mutations per site per generation, and an average generation time of g = 1 year.
Assuming a generation time of 1 year and an average mutation rate of µ = 1e−8 mutations per site per generation, our models are in agreement with this divergence time (T = 10 K years) and estimate the preceding divergence between C. reticulatum and C. echinospermum at 95 127 K years.
The high levels of variation are consistent with an average mutation rate of approximately 10 -6) per locus per generation and an effective population size of D. pseudoobscura approximately four times larger than that of D. melanogaster.
As stated by Lynch et al. 1999(1999), the average mutation rate per base pair has been estimated at around 10-11 or 10-10 per replication in prokaryotes and 10-9 per sexual generation in eukaryotes.
Using previous knowledge about the average mutation rate per year for certain genes, the scientists were able to deduce that the cancer has been in existence for an estimated 11,368 years, they report online today in Science.
Here, we use branching processes and coalescent theory to show that if one uses Kruglyak's (Nature Gen. 12 (1999) 139-144) mofel of the growth of the human population and one assumes an average mutation rate of 1×10-8per 1×10-8pere per genucleotidehen there are about 5.7 million SNper in the human generation one every 526 base pairs.
