Directed gene-copy variation: The key to conquering new environments

Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 13:01 in Biology & Nature

A study of yeast reveals new mechanism that allows cells to adapt to environmental changes more rapidly by accelerating genetic changes around genes that boost fitness, publishing 27 June in the open access journal PLOS Biology, by Dr. Jon Houseley and colleagues at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, UK.

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