by Mike Manzella — Our un­der­stand­ing of mi­cro­bial life is greatly bi­ased by our nar­row fo­cus on mi­crobes as they grow in the lab­o­ra­tory. Yet, as dis­cussed pre­vi­ously in this blog, mi­crobes can per­sist in var­i­ous dor­mant forms for ex­tended pe­ri­ods of time. Sporu­la­tion (from the Greek "spora" or seed) is per­haps the best-known strat­egy…