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The evolutionary emergence of stochastic phenotype switching in bacteria.
Microbial cell factories - 30 Aug 2011
Rainey Paul B, Beaumont Hubertus J E, Ferguson Gayle C, Gallie Jenna, Kost Christian, Libby Eric, Zhang Xue-Xian
Abstract excerpt
Stochastic phenotype switching - or bet hedging - is a pervasive feature of living systems and common in bacteria that experience fluctuating (unpredictable) environmental conditions. Under such conditions, the capacity to generate variable offspring spreads the risk of being maladapted in the present environment, against offspring likely to have some chance of survival in the future. While a rich subject for...
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