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Modern Genetic Analysis Chapter 17. Population and Evolutionary Genetics The Sources of Variation
Table 17-7. Point-Mutation Rates in Different Organisms

Organism | Gene | Mutation rate per generation

Bacteriophage | Host range | 2.5 × 109
Escherichia coli | Phage resistance | 2 × 108
Zea mays (corn) | R (color factor) | 2.9 × 104
| Y (yellow seeds) | 2 × 106
Drosophila melanogaster | Average lethal | 2.6 × 105

SOURCE: T. Dobzhansky, Genetics and the Origin of Species, 3d ed., rev. Columbia University Press, 1951.

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