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See Talk:Bacterial lawn for the origins of this page. Jmeppley 21:20, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
local air pollution
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[edit] Vandalism
There's some vandalism at the bottom of the page, I thought it would be fine for me to delete it.
[edit] Plagairism
From footnote 3, "Kim Lewis. Research Description -- works on antibiotic resistance and drug discovery, persister cells, and unculturable bacteria." (identical parts in bold):
Persisters are not mutants, but phenotypic variants of the wild type. We developed a method to isolate persisters and obtained their gene profile, which points to a dormancy program that is turned on in these cells (Keren et al., 2004). We find that proteins known as “toxins” that form toxin/antitoxin modules participate in persister formation. “Toxins” appear to be the exact opposite of what their name suggests, they reversibly block important processes such as translation, protecting the cell from bactericidal antibiotics that are ineffective against inactive targets.
From this article:
Persisters are not mutants, but phenotypic variants of the wild type. He developed a method to isolate persisters and obtained their gene profile, which pointed to a dormancy program that is turned on in these cells. He found that proteins known as “toxins” forming toxin/antitoxin modules are largely responsible for persister formation. “Toxins” appear to be the exact opposite of what their name suggests, they reversibly block important processes such as translation, protecting the cell from bactericidal antibiotics that are ineffective against inactive targets.
Originalname37 (talk) 20:39, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Stromatolite
Could someone mention stromatolites? I have little knowledge as I only learnt about them watching "Earth", that BBC documentary with a scotsman. --Squidonius (talk) 15:21, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Bacterial_mat Merge
I was about to edit Bacterial_mat to include Media:Bacteria mats near Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone-750px.JPG instead of the link to the nonfree image, but I noticed that most of the limited content available in the Bacterial mat article is superceeded by this Biofilm article. I don't think any content actually needs to be integrated into this article, a simple redirect on the Bacterial mat page will do. Thoughts? Deculpep (talk) 13:26, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
