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Evolutionary genetics

the regularity that DNA-based microbes have about the same mutation rate per genome per replication despite large differences in genome size.

In evolutionary genetics, Drake's rule refers to the regularity that DNA-based microbes have about the same mutation rate per genome per replication despite large differences in genome size. This meaning comes from Drake (1991) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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References

Drake, J. W. (1991). A constant rate of spontaneous mutation in DNA-based microbes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 88(16), 7160-7164. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.88.16.7160

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