Involvement of a cell size control mechanism in the induction and maintenance of oscillations in continuous cultures of budding yeast

Spontaneous oscillations occur in glucose‐limited continuous cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae under aerobic conditions. The oscillatory behavior is detectable as a periodic change of many bioparameters such as dissolved oxygen, ethanol production, biomass concentration, as well as cellular content of storage carbohydrates and is associated to a marked synchronization of the yeast population. These oscillations may be related to a periodic accumulation of ethanol produced by yeast in the culture medium.

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