Talk:Caulobacter crescentus

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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)