High Growth Potential of Long-Term Starved Deep Ocean Opportunistic Heterotrophic Bacteria

Experiments with bacteria in culture have shown that they often display “feast and famine” strategies that allow them to respond with fast growth upon pulses in resource availability, and enter a growth-arrest state when resources are limiting. Although feast responses have been observed in natural...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Microbiology
Main Authors:	Marta Sebastián, Margarita Estrany, Clara Ruiz-González, Irene Forn, Maria Montserrat Sala, Josep M. Gasol, Celia Marrasé
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-04-01
Subjects:	long-term starvation microbial seed bank prokaryotes bathypelagic deep ocean bacteria
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00760/full