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The role of phenotypic variation in rhizosphere Pseudomonas bacteria.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Nov 2005
van den Broek Daan, Bloemberg Guido V, Lugtenberg Ben
Abstract excerpt
Colony phase variation is a regulatory mechanism at the DNA level which usually results in high frequency, reversible switches between colonies with a different phenotype. A number of molecular mechanisms underlying phase variation are known: slipped-strand mispairing, genomic rearrangements, spontaneous mutations and epigenetic mechanisms such as differential methylation. Most examples of phenotypic variation or...
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