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Stochastic exits from dormancy give rise to heavy-tailed distributions of descendants in bacterial populations

2018-01-11

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Variance in reproductive success is a major determinant of the degree of genetic drift in a population. While many plants and animals exhibit high variance in their number of progeny, far less is known about these distributions for microorganisms. Here, we used a strain barcoding approach to quantify variability in offspring number among replicate bacterial populations and developed a Bayesian m...

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Literature Corpus work: 31039073-014a-5248-9d0c-ba0f51eff071
DOI: 10.1101/246629

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