Microbes exploit groundhog day

Tim F. Cooper
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Tim F. Cooper: Tim F. Cooper is in the Evolution and Ecology Group, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, USA. tfcooper@uh.edu

Nature, 2009, vol. 460, issue 7252, 181-181

Abstract: Can microorganisms learn from history? When a sequence of environmental changes is repeated, natural selection might select for responses that enable the microbes to prepare for later challenges in the sequence.

Date: 2009
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