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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ariel Amir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2017-01-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/22186