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Microbial bet-hedging: the power of being different.

Current opinion in microbiology - 1 Jun 2015

Grimbergen Ard Jan, Siebring Jeroen, Solopova Ana, Kuipers Oscar P

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Bet-hedging is an evolutionary theory that describes how risk spreading can increase fitness of a genotype in an unpredictably changing environment. To achieve risk spreading, maladapted phenotypes develop within isogenic populations that may be fit for a future environment. In recent years, various observations of microbial phenotypic heterogeneity have been denoted as bet-hedging strategies, sometimes without...

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PMID: 26025019
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2015.04.008

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