Decoupling of Nuclear Division Cycles and Cell Size during the Coenocytic Growth of the Ichthyosporean Sphaeroforma arctica (Current Biology)

Ondracka et al. describe the highly regular and experimentally tractable coenocytic cell cycle of an ichthyosporean Sphaeroforma arctica, one of the closest unicellular relatives of animals. They show that the periodic nuclear division cycles are driven by a clock-like mechanism that operates independently of the cell size.