Experimental evolution of bet hedging

By H. J. Beaumont, J. Gallie, Christian Kost, G. Ferguson, P. Rainey. Nature, 2009

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Subfields: Genetics, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Adaptive laboratory evolution – principles and applications for biotechnology (2013, background): “[42] and evolutionary bet hedging [43].”
• Cellular Decision-Making and Biological Noise: From Microbes to Mammals (2011, background): “On the experimental side, laboratory evolution of microbes in fluctuating environments may offer exciting opportunities to address these questions (Cooper and Lenski, 2010), as exemplified by the recent experimental evolution of random phenotypic switching (Beaumont et al., 2009).”
• Staphylococcus aureus phenotype switching: an effective bacterial strategy to escape host immune response and establish a chronic infection (2011, background): “For some other microorganisms stochastic switching to reversible states of low metabolic activity -‘dormancy’- have been described (bet-hedging strategy; Beaumont et al, 2009; 2011 EMBO Molecular Medicine 137 138 Epstein, 2009; Lewis, 2010).”