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The evolutionary emergence of stochastic phenotype switching in bacteria

Stochastic phenotype switching – or bet hedging – is a pervasive feature of living systems and common in bacteria that experience fluctuating (unpredictable) environmental conditions. Under such conditions, the capacity to generate variable offspring spreads the risk of being maladapted in the prese...

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Autores principales: Rainey, Paul B, Beaumont, Hubertus JE, Ferguson, Gayle C, Gallie, Jenna, Kost, Christian, Libby, Eric, Zhang, Xue-Xian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3231921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21995592
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2859-10-S1-S14