| Comments |
P.5 left column top paragraph: "The fastest-growing chemoorganotrophs have significantly higher specific growth rates than the fastest-growing photolithotrophs in both Bacteria and Eukarya. This slower growth of photosynthetic organisms apparently results from diversion of resources into the photosynthetic apparatus that can account for up to half of the cell protein (table 4). A further diversion of protein, and of RNA, in that fraction of the cellular ribosomal complement (a fraction of the cytosolic ribosomes, and all of the ribosomes in the plastids) are related to the synthesis of the photosynthesis-specific proteins." See comments on right side of table |