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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Microbiology Volume 2010, Article ID 191585, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2010/191585 Research Article Skew-Laplace and Cell-Size Distribution in Microbial Axenic Cultures: Statistical Assessment and Biological Interpretation ` 1 2, 3 4 2 Olga Julia, Jaume Vidal-Mas, Nicolai S. Panikov, and Josep Vives-Rego 1 Departament de Probabilitat, Logica i Estadıstica, Facultat de Matematiques, Universitat de Barcelona, Gran Via, 585, ` ´ ` 08007-Barcelona, Spain 2 Departament de Microbiologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal, 645, 08028 Barcelona, Spain 3 Tres Cantos Medicines Development Campus, GlaxoSmithKline, Severo Ochoa 2, 28760 Tres Cantos, Spain 4 Department of Chemistry Chemical Biology, Stevens Institute of Technology, Castle Point on Hudson, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA ` Correspondence should be addressed to Olga Julia, olgajulia@ Received 27 May 2009; Revised 27 October 2009; Accepted 15 March 2010 Academic Editor: Marcel H. Zwietering ` Copyright © 2010 Olga Julia et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We report a skew-Laplace statistical analysis of both flow cytometry scatters and cell size from microbial strains primarily grown in batch cultures, others in chemostat cultures and bacterial aquatic populations.