Shift and adapt: the costs and benefits of karyotype variations
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Article
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Gerstein, Aleeza C (Author)
Berman, Judith (Author)
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Title:
Current Opinion in Microbiology
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Volume/ Issue No.: 2015/AUG V.26
Call No.:579.05 COM Location: Periodicals & References Hall - 2nd floor
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p 130-136
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Life sciences (Biology)
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Abstract |
Variation is the spice of life or, in the case of evolution, variation is the necessary material on which selection can act to enable adaptation. Karyotypic variation in ploidy (the number of homologous chromosome sets) and aneuploidy (imbalance in the number of chromosomes) are fundamentally different than other types of genomic variants. Karyotypic variation emerges...
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Current Opinion in Microbiology
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