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SUBMITTER: Zubkov MV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4015317 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20140429
Because maintenance of non-scalable cellular components--membranes and chromosomes--requires an increasing fraction of energy as cell size decreases, miniaturization comes at a considerable energetic cost for a phytoplanktonic cell. Consequently, if eukaryotes can use their superior energetic resources to acquire nutrients with more or even similar efficiency compared with prokaryotes, larger unicellular eukaryotes should be able to achieve higher growth rates than smaller cyanobacteria. Here, t ...[more]