“…1/1000 (Jünemann et al, 2013), it is extremely improbable to find multiple mutations in a single read. The natural genetic diversity of NoVs has been studied previously within individual patients (Nilsson et al, 2003;Obara et al, 2008;Vega et al, 2014), within defined outbreaks (Dingle, 2004;Holzknecht et al, 2015;Sasaki et al, 2006), or at larger geographic and temporal scales (Bodhidatta et al, 2015;Carlsson et al, 2009;Cotten et al, 2014;Kobayashi et al, 2015;Vega et al, 2014). However, this diversity depends on multiple factors other than spontaneous mutation rates, including natural selection, the number of replication rounds elapsed and random genetic drift, among others.…”