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Switching between phenotypes and population extinction.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics - 1 Nov 2011
Lohmar Ingo, Meerson Baruch
Abstract excerpt
Many types of bacteria can survive under stress by switching stochastically between two different phenotypes: the "normals" who multiply fast, but are vulnerable to stress, and the "persisters" who hardly multiply, but are resilient to stress. Previous theoretical studies of such bacterial populations have focused on the fitness: the asymptotic rate of unbounded growth of the population. Yet for an isolated...
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