Comments on: Microcosm in the Boston Globe: You Get Old, I Get Old…E. coli Gets Old http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/02/microcosm-in-the-boston-globe-you-get-old-i-get-olde-coli-gets-old/ A blog about life, past and future. Written by DISCOVER contributing editor and columnist Carl Zimmer. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:08:33 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jonathan Badger http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/02/microcosm-in-the-boston-globe-you-get-old-i-get-olde-coli-gets-old/comment-page-1/#comment-545 Jonathan Badger Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:58:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/02/microcosm-in-the-boston-globe-you-get-old-i-get-olde-coli-gets-old/#comment-545 In your article you wrote "In 2003, scientists found a species of bacteria that also got old. Known as Caulobacter crescentus, it also reproduces by budding" Not to be too pedantic, but it would be truer to say "In 2003 scientists found *that* a species of bacteria also got old" -- <em>Caulobacter crescentus</em> itself was found much earlier than that -- Lucy Shapiro, among others, has been working on <em>C. crescentus</em> for decades. In your article you wrote “In 2003, scientists found a species of bacteria that also got old. Known as Caulobacter crescentus, it also reproduces by budding”

Not to be too pedantic, but it would be truer to say “In 2003 scientists found *that* a species of bacteria also got old” — Caulobacter crescentus itself was found much earlier than that — Lucy Shapiro, among others, has been working on C. crescentus for decades.

]]> By: Ian http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/02/microcosm-in-the-boston-globe-you-get-old-i-get-olde-coli-gets-old/comment-page-1/#comment-544 Ian Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:55:10 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/02/microcosm-in-the-boston-globe-you-get-old-i-get-olde-coli-gets-old/#comment-544 You've discovered the true origin of the flagellum! As bacteria aged, they needed support to get around so they grew the flagellum as a walking stick. Everything else, as they say, is history! You’ve discovered the true origin of the flagellum! As bacteria aged, they needed support to get around so they grew the flagellum as a walking stick. Everything else, as they say, is history!

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