Microbial bet-hedging: The power of being different

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 25, Issue , 2015, Pages 67-72

  Grimbergen, Ard Jan ^a   Siebring, Jeroen ^a,b   Solopova, Ana ^a   Kuipers, Oscar P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b TOP INSTITUTE FOOD AND NUTRITION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL ENDOSPORE; CARBON METABOLISM; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; MICROBIAL BET HEDGING; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC FITNESS; GENOTYPE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84931264345     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2015.04.008     Document Type: Review

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