Fission yeast is commonly used as a model organism in eukaryotic cell growth studies. To describe the cells’ length growth patterns during the mitotic cycle, different models have been proposed previously as linear, exponential, bilinear and biexponential ones. The task of discriminating among these patterns is still challenging. Here, we have analyzed 298 individual cells altogether, namely from three different steady-state cultures (wild-type, wee1-50 mutant and pom1Δ mutant). We have concluded that in 190 cases (63.8%) the bilinear model was more adequate than either the linear or the exponential ones. These 190 cells were further examined by separately analyzing the linear segments of the best fitted bilinear models. Linear and exponential functions have been fitted to these growth segments to determine whether the previously fitted bilinear functions were really correct. The majority of these growth segments were found to be linear; nonetheless, a significant number of exponential ones were also detected. However, exponential ones occurred mainly in cases of rather short segments (<40 min), where there were not enough data for an accurate model fitting. By contrast, in long enough growth segments (≥40 min), linear patterns highly dominated over exponential ones, verifying that overall growth is probably bilinear.
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