Mother cells can establish slow growing lineages in clonal populations since their earliest division cycles
Irene Delgado-Román, María José García-Marcelo, Carmen Ruger-Herreros, Lidia Delgado-Ramos, Abhyudai Singh, Sebastián Chávez, Mari Cruz Muñoz-Centeno
The paper shows that young mother cells can establish slow-growing lineages in clonal yeast populations due to increased Whi5 expression linked to cell cycle phases.
Open Biology · Jan 21, 2026Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology