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 22
Comparison of asexual and sexual cell cycles with different plateau duration. (a) Plateau = 200. There is no advantage for the sexual cell cycle. (b) Plateau = 100. There is a slight advantage for the smaller cell in the sexual cell cycle. (c) Plateau = 5. There is a great advantage for the smaller cell. Graphs are semilogarithmic.
