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Analysis of Cell Cycle Position in Mammalian Cells
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A unifying model for the G1 period in prokaryotes and eukaryotes
1Department of Microbiology, The University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
Nature
|July 5, 1979
Abstract:
A model to explain the cell division cycle in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes is presented. No specific 'G1 functions' take place during the G1 period, which is merely part of a larger period for the preparation of DNA synthesis which began at the previous initiation of DNA synthesis. A G1 period exists merely because the doubling time of the cells is greater than the sum of the S and G2 periods.
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