Figure 1.

The mutation rate and generation interval used in the demographic inference in birds and several mammals

Different methods were used to estimate mutation rates: PS, MA, and PA. Photo credit via wikimedia commons: mouse from Zeynel Cebeci (CC BY-SA 4.0); collared flycatcher from Andrej Chudy (CC BY-SA 2.0); horse and yak from Alexandr Frolov (CC BY-SA 4.0); wolf from Christian Mehlführer (CC BY 2.5). PS, pedigree sequencing; MA, sequencing of mutation accumulation lines [21]; PA, phylogenetic approach; MYA, million years ago.