Exploratory polarization facilitates mating partner selection in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
M. R. Clark-Cotton, N. Henderson, M. Pablo, D. Ghose, T. Elston, D. J. Lew
The paper shows yeast cells use mobile polarity sites to explore pheromone gradients, stabilizing only when they detect high pheromone levels, facilitating mating partner selection.
bioRxiv · Sep 7, 2020Cell Biology