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SUBMITTER: Smith C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3945744 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Smith Carl C Pomiankowski Andrew A Greig Duncan D
Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology 20131223 2
In unicellular organisms like yeast, mating with the right partner is critical to future fitness because each individual can only mate once. Because cell size is important for viability, mating with a partner of the right size could be a significant advantage. To investigate this idea, we manipulated the size of unmated yeast cells and showed that their viability depended on environmental conditions; large cells do better on rich medium and small cells do better on poor medium. We also found tha ...[more]