This first comparison of different methodologies to estimate germline mutation rate from pedigrees resulted in almost a 2-fold variation in the estimated rates, discrepancies mainly caused by different filtering methods.

The Atlantic herring has the lowest mutation rate yet estimated in a vertebrate species and this partially explains its moderate nucleotide diversity given the large population size.

Subterranean isopods endemic to regions with large igneous rock formations have a higher mutation rate and display an excess of mutations that are typical of an oxidative stress.

Impaired bone microstructure and bone strength are prominent characteristics of rats with hemizygous E10-16del mutation in PLS3, and treatment with alendronate or teriparatide can improve bone mineral density and bone microstructure of this novel rat model with PLS3-related early-onset osteoporosis.

Long-lived tropical trees in Southeast Asia accumulate somatic mutations in a manner that is dependent on time, rather than growth rate.

A new assay for specific mutational classes provides preciseestimates of the mutation rates and mutational bias for influenza A viruses.

Population mutation rates are highly flexible and evolvable under extreme stress conditions, matching changes in selective pressure to avoid extinction of the entire population.

Whole genome DNA sequence analysis, genome wide gene expression and complex organismal phenotypes in Drosophila mutation accumulation lines provide a robust estimate of the spontaneous mutation rate and mutational effects.

A broad mutational target is the cause of the high mutational variance and corresponding fast phenotypic evolutionary rate in P3.p cell fate in Caenorhabditis nematodes.

Germline mutation rates in mice are shaped by two mutator alleles that interact epistatically, showing that DNA repair defects that map to different loci can have snowballing effects.