Phenotype switching of the mutation rate facilitates adaptive evolution.

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The mutation rate plays an important role in adaptive evolution. It can be modified by mutator and anti-mutator alleles. Recent empirical evidence hints that the mutation rate may vary among genetically identical individuals: evidence from bacteria suggests that the mutation rate can be affected by expression noise of a DNA repair protein and potentially also by translation errors in various proteins....

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