| Range |
average newborn cell ~2.5: average for a population in all stages of growth ~3.9 unitless
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| Organism |
Bacteria Escherichia coli |
| Reference |
Young KD. The selective value of bacterial shape. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 2006 Sep70(3):660-703 DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.00001-06 p.679 right column 4th paragraphPubMed ID16959965
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| Primary Source |
[45] Cooper, S., and M. W. Denny. 1997. A conjecture on the relationship of bacterial shape to motility in rod-shaped bacteria. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 148: 227-231 link |
| Comments |
P.679 right column 4th paragraph: "An average newborn E. coli cell has a length-to-width ratio of ∼2.5, and the average for a population in all stages of growth is ∼3.9 (primary source)." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
115617 |