But abolishing turgor pressure didn't change E. coli's growth rate, Huang and colleagues reported in 2014 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (sciencenews.org)
Check their skin turgor by pulling up on the skin between their shoulders and letting it go. (smartdogowners.com)
Mcf1 treated caterpillars show rapid loss of body turgor (the «floppy» phenotype) within 12 hours, associated with massive apoptosis of the midgut epithelium. (journals.plos.org)