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maintenance energy: a standalone construct

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Bacterial physiology

the energy a culture must spend simply to stay alive, separate from what it spends making new cells.

In bacterial physiology, maintenance energy refers to the energy a culture must spend simply to stay alive, separate from what it spends making new cells. This meaning comes from Pirt (1965) in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences.[1]

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References

Pirt, S. J. (1965). The maintenance energy of bacteria in growing cultures. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences, 163(991), 224-231. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1965.0069

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