Abstract:Extremophiles employ a diverse array of resistance strategies to thrive under harsh 18 environmental conditions but maintaining these adaptations comes at an energetic cost. If energy reserves to drop too low, extremophiles may enter a dormant state of reduced 20 metabolic activity to survive. Dormancy is frequently offered as a plausible explanation for the persistence of bacteria under suboptimal environmental conditions with the 22 prevalence of this mechanism only expected to rise as stressful conditions i… Show more
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