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Microbiology

reversible, heritable on-off switching of a gene's expression at high frequency, producing mixed populations of bacterial cells.

In microbiology, phase variation refers to reversible, heritable on-off switching of a gene's expression at high frequency, producing mixed populations of bacterial cells. This meaning comes from van der Woude (2004) in Clinical Microbiology Reviews.[1]

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expression4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs frequency4 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs phase5 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs

References

van der Woude, M. W., & Bäumler, A. J. (2004). Phase and Antigenic Variation in Bacteria. Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 17(3), 581-611. https://doi.org/10.1128/cmr.17.3.581-611.2004

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