intermutation

— Schnabl, Stadler, Frost, and Schuster recently showed that error, expressed as mutual intermutation between reactive molecular species significantly affects the ability of a system to bifurcate into complex, chaotic oscillations.

— Most mutations in this genome have an intermutation distance of about 10⁵ bp to about 10⁶ bp, but the plot clearly shows a major region of hypermutation roughly centered on mutation position 4000 (corresponding to a 14 Mb region on the long arm of chromosome 6), where there is an extraodinary cluster of C • T mutations (red dots) that are spaced from their nearest neighbors by very short distances (often 100 bp or less).