Signal transduction: external signals influence spore-number control.
In budding yeast, the supply of external nutrients controls both sporulation and spore number. A new study has investigated how an external signal can be propagated internally to digitize an output of the number of spores formed.
Lacefield
Soni
S
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Ingolia
Nicholas
N
D025461:Feedback, Physiological / Q000502:physiology; D008540:Meiosis / Q000502:physiology; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000502:physiology*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*; D013172:Spores, Fungal / Q000502:physiology*