On the Mutation Rate of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1
- 1 June 2005
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Genetics
- Vol. 170 (2) , 969-970
- https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.104.040410
Abstract
All seven DNA-based microbes for which carefully established mutation rates and mutational spectra were previously available displayed a genomic mutation rate in the neighborhood of 0.003 per chromosome replication. The pathogenic mammalian DNA virus herpes simplex type 1 has an estimated genomic mutation rate compatible with that value.Keywords
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