Bet hedging in the underworld.
Under starvation conditions, the soil bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti divides into two types of daughter cell: one suited to short-term and the other to long-term starvation.
New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, Massey University at Albany, North Shore Mail Center 0745, Auckland, New Zealand. x.x.zhang1@massey.ac.nz
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