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Time (in days) required to form visible growth during initial isolation of marine microorganisms (y axis) and during subculturing (x axis). Note that the overwhelming majority of isolates observed between 45 and 175 days of the initial incubation regrew within 24 h (red squares in the upper left corner of the heat map).
