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The evolutionary advantage of heritable phenotypic heterogeneity

2015-10-09

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Phenotypic plasticity is an evolutionary driving force in diverse biological processes, including the adaptive immune system, the development of neoplasms, and the bacterial acquisition of drug resistance. It is essential, therefore, to understand the evolutionary advantage of an allele that confers cells the ability to express a range of phenotypes. Of particular importance is to understand how this advantage of...

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Literature Corpus work: 86ff925d-d5ef-5f04-9470-3b91756317dd
DOI: 10.1101/028795

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