Phase variation: how to create and coordinate population diversity.

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Phase variation yields phenotypic heterogeneity in a clonal population as the result of one of a limited number of known molecular mechanisms. These include slipped strand mispairing, site-specific recombination and epigenetic regulation mediated by DNA methylation. Recently new regulatory variants utilizing these mechanisms have been identified, which is facilitating the identification of additional phase...

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