im not grasping this paper

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This thing says that after 7 days of starvation, viable cell counts of

Vibrio did not decline, but 99.8% of the lipids were gone. How can any

intact membranes be left? I dont get how anyone could consider this to

be possible?

http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=239115 & blobtype=pdf