The road not taken: Could stress-specific mutations lead to different evolutionary paths?

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Deepa Agashe

* E-mail: dagashe@ncbs.res.in

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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