Open AccessGeneration Times of Bacteria
Author(s) -
Page R. Painter
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
journal of general microbiology/journal of general microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2059-9323
pISSN - 0022-1287
DOI - 10.1099/00221287-89-2-217
Subject(s) - generation time , division (mathematics) , first generation , fourth generation , third generation , statistics , mathematics , relation (database) , computer science , demography , arithmetic , telecommunications , data mining , population , sociology
Random delays in cell division lead to correlations between the generation times of mothers and their daughters and to a difference between the 'real' and the 'artificial' distributions of generation times. At present there is no satisfactory relation between the two distributions although both are useful in the analysis of growth. In a special case, it is shown that they are similar as long as the coefficient of variation of generation times is small.