Fig. 6
From: The ability of single genes vs full genomes to resolve time and space in outbreak analysis
Mean waiting times for a mutation as a function of alignment length and evolutionary rate. Contours correspond to mean waiting times under a given combination of alignment length and evolutionary rate. Genomes and barcode genes for a variety of viruses are shown with reported evolutionary rate confidence intervals (vertical lines) and including analyses of Ebola virus genomes (red violin) and GP sequences (blue violin) reported here. Most genomes occupy parameter space implying temporal resolution of a mutation once every month or so. Subgenomic fragments on the other hand are expected to have mean mutation waiting times of more than a month