Rule for Reproduction Rate?

TomHendricks474_at_cs.com
Date: 03/06/05 

Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 00:37:37 -0500 (EST)

Does anyone know of a rule for reproduction rate
that says that replication speeds up with environmental
temperatures?

For instance in very cold:

"Typically, bacteria in the permafrost are in a dormant state but we have

found that they reproduce very slowly and respire producing gases including

CO2 and methane when frozen," Dr Panikov said.

Full Text at BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4287579.stm

And IIRC bacteria in hot springs reproduce very quickly.

Comment?

Tom

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