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The phenotypic signature of adaptation to thermal stress in Escherichia coli.
BMC evolutionary biology - 2 Sept 2015
Hug Shaun M, Gaut Brandon S
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BACKGROUND: In the short-term, organisms acclimate to stress through phenotypic plasticity, but in the longer term they adapt to stress genetically. The mutations that accrue during adaptation may contribute to completely novel phenotypes, or they may instead act to restore the phenotype from a stressed to a pre-stress condition. To better understand the influence of evolution on the diversity and direction of...
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