Group	Virus	Short name	Genome size (kb)	Mutation rate (s/n/r)	Mutational target size	Original publications
Positive stranded RNA	Poliovirus 1	PV-1	7.44	8.9E-06	1	Sedivy et al. 1987
Positive stranded RNA	Turnip mosaic virus	TuMV	9.84	6.6E-06	ca. 25.2	de la Iglesia et al. 2012
Negative stranded RNA	Vesicular stomatitis virus	VSV	11.2	6.0E-06	6	Furió et al. 2005
Negative stranded RNA	Influenza A virus	FLUVA	13.6	9.0E-06	2 to 5	Suárez et al. 1992
Negative stranded RNA	Measles virus	MV	15.9	4.4E-05	ca. 7.5	Shrag et al. 1999
Double stranded RNA	Bacteriophage phi6	phi6	13.4	1.4E-06	ca. 5.6	Chao et al. 2002
Single stranded DNA	Bacteriophage phiX174	phiX174	5.39	2.1E-07	ca. 6.4	Denhardt & Silver 1966
Single stranded DNA	Bacteriophage phiX174	phiX174 (ii)	5.39	1.0E-06	7	Cuevas et al. 2009
Double stranded DNA	Bacteriophage lambda	lambda	48.5	7.9E-08	38	Drake 1991
Double stranded DNA	Bacteriophage T2	T2	169	2.0E-08	1576	Luria 1951