title: Senescence: even bacteria get old.
abstract: Cellular senescence, even in the presence of abundant nutrients, has now been demonstrated in several microbes, including most recently the bacterium Escherichia coli, suggesting that it may be a universal adaptive response to the inevitable damage to cell constituents that accumulates with time.
authors.affiliation: Biology Department, Santa Clara University, CA 95053, USA.
authors.forename: Craig
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Stephens
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D018407:Bacterial Physiological Phenomena; D002455:Cell Division / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors