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Table 1 Summarized characteristics of the quasispecies in CE lineages.

From: Quasispecies-like behavior observed in catalytic RNA populations evolving in a test tube

lineage name

3D

3D

6H

6H

6H

6L

6L

6L

6L

burst evaluated

10

50

5

35

50

22

23

39

42

Ne (molecules)

600

600

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

mutagen (MnCl2) added?

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

master sequence identity

n/a

n/a

wt

MS1

MS2

MS3

MS1

MS2

MS2

frequency of most common sequence (%)

42

40

77

80

45

68

56

77

62

sample size (sequences)

33

48

102

98

108

41

48

53

42

# of unique genotypes

12

17

17

15

37

9

10

10

13

Shannon Diversity Index

1.96

2.22

1.13

1.01

2.35

1.17

1.50

0.99

1.56

mean Hamming distance

7.2

4.5

2.0

0.95

1.4

1.5

1.2

1.3

1.3

  1. Key: Lineage 3D is from a previous study [22], while lineages 6H and 6L are from this study. The master sequence (MS) names are given by order of appearance, simply 1, 2, etc., except in the case of the wildtype (wt), B16-19. The frequency of the MS, the total number of sequences sampled, and the number of unique genotypes was calculated by the Network software, and the Shannon Diversity Index values were calculated using the formula given in the text.