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[Cell cycle of Candida utilis daughter cells developing at different glucose concentrations]
Mikrobiologiia
|May 1, 1983
Abstract:
Candida utilis daughter cells were obtained from a chemostat and their cell cycle was studied in batch cultures at a glucose concentration of 0.1, 1 and 2% in the medium. The size of the daughter cells growing at a 0.1% concentration of glucose reached only a half size of the cells growing at a 2% glucose concentration. Cytokinesis took place under the conditions of substrate limitation as soon as the cycle of DNA division was over and the resultant daughter cells were extremely small.
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