FIGURE 3.

Overview of recent studies on phenotypic heterogeneity and possible employment of bet‐hedging strategies in various microorganisms. In this work, we highlight some recent studies regarding bet‐hedging traits that fall into several categories of microbial lifestyle, including signaling (purple), dormancy (yellow), and resource use (blue). In some cases, the same population manifests different bet‐hedging strategies because of direct or indirect relationships between traits. With an asterisk, we marked examples of studies where a population was shown to employ several bet‐hedging strategies, for example, nutrient utilization is directly involved in spore or persisters formation