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The control co-ordinating cell division with cell growth has been investigated in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Twenty-five mutants altered in this control have been isolated which have the same growth rate as wild type but divide at a smaller cell size. The mutants define two genes wee 1 and wee 2, both of which are involved in a control initiating mitosis when the cell attains a critical size.
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Thuriaux, P., Nurse, P. & Carter, B. Mutants altered in the control co-ordinating cell division with cell growth in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe . Molec. Gen. Genet. 161, 215–220 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00274190
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