A Phyletic Perspective on Cell Growth

Small but Mighty: Cell Size and Bacteria

“…The difference in size between Candidatus Actinomarina minuta and these giants is equivalent to the difference between a mouse and the Empire State Building (E. coli could be represented by a small skunk or a rabbit on this scale). We refer the reader to Niklas (2015), wherein he discusses how cell features and geometry factor into considerations of cell size.…”

Shoot apical meristem and plant body organization: a cross-species comparative study

“…Differences in organ size among species are primarily governed by cell number (Gonzalez et al, 2010;Brodribb et al 2013). In contrast, cell size is less flexible both among and within species and is constrained by its strong relationship to nuclear genome size (Knight and Beaulieu, 2008;Niklas, 2015), although it can be involved in plant responses to environmental factors such as shade or drought (Huber et al, 2014;Carins Murphy et al, 2016).…”

Myonuclear content regulates cell size with similar scaling properties in mice and humans

“…The change in number of organelles with a typical size parameter is called the scaling of that characteristic. Scaling laws typically reflect overall attributes of cells, and the cell's molecular or biochemical status represents the underlying manifestation of the observed type of scaling [2][3][4][5][6][7][8] . The scaling can express relationships of correlates to cell size by reporting the scaling exponent b in a power function of the form y = ax b .…”