Slower growth of Escherichia coli leads to longer survival in carbon starvation due to a decrease in the maintenance rate.

bacterial fitness bacterial survival bacterial systems biology death rate quantitative physiology Subject Categories Metabolism Microbiology, Virology & Host Pathogen Interaction Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) 10.13039/501100001659 SPP 1617 TRR 174 European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) 10.13039/100004410 ALTF 782‐2017 Figure 1 C plots the death rates γ of the five cultures in Fig 1 B and of other cultures against their growth rates μ , revealing a clear trend of slower growing cultures dying more slowly than faster growing cultures.

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