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I don't know how to mark this, or have the will to change it, but it seems to me that this article consists of two to three short blurbs copy pasted together, a bit redundant in how redundant it is.Opcnup 01:33, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

I've eliminated growth condition information from the article (possibly the only thing left from the original!). In case anyone takes offense at this, I want to emphasize that the conditions listed were (1) particular to the laboratory environment, and hence not necessarily relevant to optimal growth conditions in the real world (where nutrients differ, oxygenation differs, spatial patterning differs ...), and (2) particular to strain CB15. This is currently the most popular lab strain, but CB2 (the type strain!!) still gets used a fair bit, grows poorly at 30 degrees, and has a generation time in excess of 2.5 h. More importantly, the article is about C. crescentus as a species, not as a particular strain, and generation times and optimal conditions vary. CB15 is, in fact, atypically fast and happy in the lab, perhaps explaining its experimental popularity. If someone wants to add the detail for CB15, go nuts. Gerta 02:57, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Information Bias

I'm concerned that the latest additions to this page basically revolve around one mathematical model and a small slice of Caulobacter research. While the work is published and quite respectable, this article no longer seems very representative nor encyclopedic. It also seems that an author involved in the study may have written this detail into the page, which suggests some conflict of interest.

I plan to revise the article to reflect a broader overview of Caulobacter research, but I wanted to air these concerns in hopes of keeping future edits somewhat more balanced and to make it clear it's nothing personal to do with the research currently included in the article. Gerta (talk) 16:37, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sections Without Content

Multiple sections - Strains and Distribution, Physiology and Life Cycle, Genomics, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Normal Role, Model Organism, and Role in Biotechnology - have absolutely NO CONTENT! They should either be edited and expanded, or deleted. --Shruti14 ^{t c s} 14:58, 29 March 2008 (UTC)