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Turning to the cold

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Most organisms, from bacteria to humans, can follow temperature gradients to an optimal temperature. Experience influences eukaryotes' preferred temperature, and, as it turns out, bacteria also adjust their temperature preference depending on growth conditions.

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Figure 1: The signalling pathway that mediates chemotaxis and thermotaxis in E. coli.
Figure 2: Density-dependent cryophilic switch observed by Salman and Libchaber4.

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  1. Victor Sourjik is in the Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH), Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany. v.sourjik@zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de,

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  2. Ned S. Wingreen is in the Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1014, USA. wingreen@princeton.edu,

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