Article
[Metastable phenotype of bacteria].
Mikrobiologiia - 1 Jan 2000
Golovlev E L
Abstract excerpt
This review analyzes data available in the literature and the author's own data on the phenotypic variability of bacteria that occurs within the framework of a genotype unchanging in terms of the genetic information stored. This variability is a form of bacterial adaptation to an unstable environment and results from a specific form of natural selection. This phenomenon arose evolutionarily not as a mechanism to...
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