Bacterial contingency loci: the role of simple sequence DNA repeats in bacterial adaptation.
Bacterial pathogens face stringent challenges to their survival because of the many unpredictable, often precipitate, and dynamic changes that occur in the host environment or in the process of transmission from one host to another. Bacterial adaptation to their hosts involves either a mechanism for...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2006
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