A Short-Term Advantage for Syngamy in the Origin of Eukaryotic Sex: Effects of Cell Fusion on Cell Cycle Duration and Other Effects Related to the Duration of the Cell Cycle—Relationship between Cell Growth Curve and the Optimal Size of the Species, and Circadian Cell Cycle in Photosynthetic Unicellular Organisms
Figure 13
Comparison of asexual (a) and sexual (b), (c) cell cycles in different environmental richness: poor on the left, rich on the right ((b), small cell, and (c), large cell). Cells have the same size before fusion in both environments (the small cell is at 1/5 of G1, and the large cell is at 4/5 of G1), although the sexual cycle of the small cell is only shorter than the asexual cell cycle in poor environments.
