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Individual-level bet hedging in the bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti.

Current biology : CB - 12 Oct 2010

Ratcliff William C, Denison R Ford

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The expression of phenotypic variability can enhance geometric mean fitness and act as a bet-hedging strategy in unpredictable environments. Metazoan bet hedging usually involves phenotypic diversification among an individual's offspring, such as differences in seed dormancy. Virtually all known microbial bet-hedging strategies, in contrast, rely on low-probability stochastic switching of a heritable phenotype by...

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PMID: 20869244
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.08.036

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