Growth and the cell cycle in green algae dividing by multiple fission.

Folia Microbiol (Praha)

Institute of Microbiology, Centre Algatech, Laboratory of Cell Cycles of Algae, Opatovický mlýn, Czech Academy of Sciences, 379 81, Třeboň, Czech Republic.

Published: September 2019

Most cells divide into two daughter cells; however, some green algae can have different division patterns in which a single mother cell can sometimes give rise to up to thousands of daughter cells. Although such cell cycle patterns can be very complex, they are governed by the same general concepts as the most common binary fission. Moreover, cell cycle progression appears to be connected with size, since cells need to ensure that their size after division will not drop below the limit required for survival. Although the exact mechanism that lets cells measure cell size remains largely unknown, there have been several prominent hypotheses that try to explain it.

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