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. 1999 Mar;19(3):2000–2007. doi: 10.1128/mcb.19.3.2000

TABLE 3.

Spontaneous mutation rates in homozygous diploid strains measured as the rate of reversion of his7-2 or lys2::insE-A14 to His+ or Lys+, respectively

Strain genotype Relative reversion ratea
his7-2 lys2::insE-A14
POL+/POL+
 Absolute (109) 13 600
 Relative 1 1
pol3-01/pol3-01 454 200
exo1/exo1 10 38
msh2/msh2 85 6,000
pol3-01/pol3-01 exo1/exo1 8,460 4,500
pol3-01/pol3-01 msh2/msh2 21,310 5,670
a

Fold increase over the wild type.