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Originally Posted by dwalstad  Mycobacteria are incredibly efficient growers under starvation conditions. They grow and divide (probably not all year long, but much longer than a day). |
Wow! That is likely one of the reasons they stock so much lipids. Kind of like the bear that stocks up of fat for the winter. It surprises me how little we know about micro-organisms. I think with the new gene technologies we will surely learn more about them. I know our understanding of yeast is growing dramatically.
(I mis-typed I should just retract the whole sentence "Yeast cells will consume their lipid reserves in less than a day in an aerobic environment for example." To clarify it would be to far out of topic for this forum. If anyone is really interested in how yeast survives storage and returns to a nutrient rich media PM me.
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