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Age structure landscapes emerge from the equilibrium between aging and rejuvenation in bacterial populations.
Nature communications - 13 Sept 2018
Proenca Audrey M, Rang Camilla Ulla, Buetz Christen, Shi Chao, Chao Lin
Abstract excerpt
The physiological asymmetry between daughters of a mother bacterium is produced by the inheritance of either old poles, carrying non-genetic damage, or newly synthesized poles. However, as bacteria display long-term growth stability leading to physiological immortality, there is controversy on whether asymmetry corresponds to aging. Here we show that deterministic age structure landscapes emerge from...
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