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Control of the cell division cycle in Chlamydomonas
1Department of Botany, Queen's University of Belfast, N. Ireland, UK.
Microbiological Sciences
|July 1, 1984
Abstract:
In Chlamydomonas, the duration of the cell cycle is determined by timer control of a rate-limiting commitment to divide, and cell size determines whether 2, 4, 8 or 16 daughter cells are formed. Use of different environmental conditions allows an evaluation of metabolic and biosynthetic changes, including tubulin synthesis, as possible controllers of the cell cycle.