While in Humans, the Cost of Fitness Is Less Time for Internet Surfing

Aug 10, 2007

Over at his eponymous blog, Mike the Mad Biologist has a post suggesting that perhaps signal peptides are the fitness cost of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

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