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Second, restoration of normal rates of growth in resistant strains is more often attributable to compensatory mutations at other loci, rather than to back-mutation, thus preserving the resistance trait in the bacterial population
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Gabriel G. Perron et al. 2008
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