fypoadmin
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9 years ago I only use the "loss of viability at high temperature" term when they do the type of experiment where they take aliquots of a culture at high temperature and see how many colonies form when they plate them back at std/low temperature. That isn’t a direct measure of population growth at high temp.
If there's just growth or lack thereof on a plate or in liquid (but most commonly a photo of a plate) at high temp, then I use "decreased population growth" or "inviable", and I don't use the "loss of viability" term. Lately I've been putting temp in as a condition rather than using the pre-composed term, but both way of doing it are semantically equivalent and therefore interchangeable in principle.
But I don't think there's a case for merging "loss of viability" and "decreased cell population growth" for high temp or any other condition, because they fit slightly different experiments. The "loss of viability" terms all have a brief explanation of the expt in comments; would it help if I moved that stuff to the defs?
Original comment by: mah11
I was just about to ask for "abolished growth on high temp" but I wonder if we could streamline some terms and merge "loss of viability at high temperature" and "decreased cell population growth at high temperature" with new merged term being called "sensitive to high temperature"?
Original comment by: Antonialock