Talk:Mutation rate
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The article refers to "The review in Science’s ‘Research News’ " but gives no spcific reference.
The bit about "Eve" and 6000 years is misleading creationist propaganda (debunked http://talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB621_1.html ) and needs to be removed or countered
[edit] Merge this with genetic drift?
Please discuss this at the Genetic drift talk page. — Donama 06:07, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Accurate?
Are you sure that the numbers given for mutation rate are accurate? I could believe that rate per base pair, but not per gene. Adam Cuerden talk 03:56, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
- A related question would be: "per generation" likely refers to "per cell duplication" even in eukaryotes. So we would need an approximate figure of how that translates into generations as normally percieved in multicellular organisms.213.47.123.225 22:11, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Wrong mutation rates?
"DNA viruses have mutation rates between 10^-6 to 10^-8", "the mutation rate in eukaryotes is in generally 10^-4 to 10^-6"
10^-8 < 10^-6 => So the virus has a lower mutation rate than an animals/eukaryotes? (217.87.250.137 (talk) 13:02, 24 November 2007 (UTC))
- I was hoping to find some help with understanding the math of mutation rates (I'm not a geneticist or a molecular biologist - but do research and teaching on HIV, and I want to understand the numbers i'm teaching!!), and I was sad to see that this discussion is a bit old. I'm wondering, though, whether the problem with the mutation rates quoted has to do with the proofreading function of DNA polymerase, which is missing in RT. so, the errors are generated and corrected in mammals, but not in viruses (and maybe some bacteria - can't recall how efficient bacteria are at DNA proofreading) --janaki (talk) 16:25, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
