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Microbiology

highly mutable DNA stretches in pathogens that generate variants at high rates, preparing populations for unpredictable host environments.

In microbiology, contingency loci refers to highly mutable DNA stretches in pathogens that generate variants at high rates, preparing populations for unpredictable host environments. This meaning comes from Moxon (1994) in Current Biology.[1]

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References

Moxon, E. R., Rainey, P. B., Nowak, M. A., & Lenski, R. E. (1994). Adaptive evolution of highly mutable loci in pathogenic bacteria. Current Biology, 4(1), 24-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0960-9822(00)00005-1

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