ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026
Experimental evolution of cellular miniaturization reveals a putative mechanism for cell size evolution.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- Experimental evolution of cellular miniaturization reveals a putative mechanism for cell size evolution.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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Abstract
Cell volume, a key determinant of physiology, is maintained by cell size homeostasis. Large deviations from typical size are often harmful, yet cell sizes have diverged drastically during evolution. How size homeostasis evolves to support such diversity without impairing cellular function remains unclear. To address this question, we used experimental evolution to progressively select for smaller
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