ReviewTrends in microbiology2024
Microbial life in slow and stopped lanes.
Review in Trends in microbiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
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Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed.
- From dividing to dormant: embracing the full activity spectrum for environmental microorganisms.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2026Review
- Genome-wide fitness profiling reveals flagellar rotation as an energetic liability during anaerobic maintenance inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Emergent phenotypic heterogeneity in synthetic cross-feeding consortia driven by heterogeneous metabolite distribution.National science review · 2026Article
- Activation of the antibiotic resistance factor WhiB7 can stimulate aggregate biofilm formation in stationary phaseJournal of bacteriology · 2026Article
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- Dry versus wet dormancy: suspended lives ofmSystems · 2026Review
- Epitranscriptomics as a Candidate Universal Modulator of Dormancy Transitions.Ecology and evolution · 2026Review
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- Temperature-dependent photostasis and nitrogen limitation in streamlined-genome red algae Cyanidiophyceae from natural habitats.The ISME journal · 2026Article
- Hypermutability ofEmerging microbes & infections · 2025Article
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- All Organisms Can Be Anesthetized, but There's No Point?BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2025Review
- A bacterial toxin-antitoxin system involved in an unusual response to genotoxic stress.EMBO reports · 2025Article
- Molecular and Biophysical Perspectives on Dormancy Breaking: Lessons from Yeast Spore.Biomolecules · 2025Review
- Mechanistic study of a low-power bacterial maintenance state using high-throughput electrochemistry.Cell · 2024Article
- Bacterial killing and the dimensions of bacterial death.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2024Article
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Authors and funding
3 authors.
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Abstract
Microbes in nature often lack nutrients and face extreme or widely fluctuating temperatures, unlike microbes in growth-optimized settings in laboratories that much of the literature examines. Slowed or suspended lives are the norm for microbes. Studying them is important for understanding the consequences of climate change and for addressing fundamental questions about life: are there limits to how slowly a cell's life can progress, and how long cells can remain viable without self-replicating? Recent studies began addressing these questions with single-cell-level measurements and mathematical models. Emerging principles that govern slowed or suspended lives of cells - including lives of dormant spores and microbes at extreme temperatures - are re-defining discrete cellular states as continuums and revealing intracellular dynamics at new timescales. Nearly inactive, lifeless-appearing microbes are transforming our understanding of life.
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