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Is cell size a spandrel?

All organisms control the size of their cells. We focus here on the question of size regulation in bacteria, and suggest that the quantitative laws governing cell size and its dependence on growth rate may arise as byproducts of a regulatory mechanism which evolved to support multiple DNA replicatio...

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Autor principal: Amir, Ariel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5245963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28102818
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.22186