Bet hedging or not? A guide to proper classification of microbial survival strategies

BioEssays

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 215-223

  De Jong, Imke G ^a   Haccou, Patsy ^b   Kuipers, Oscar P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Kluyver Center for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Bet hedging; Evolution; Evolutionarily stable strategy; Phenotypic heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BET HEDGING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENOTYPE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; KIN SELECTION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79951552049     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201000127     Document Type: Article

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