Mitochondriogenesis in synchronous cultures of yeast: I. Oscillatory pattern of respiration

Synchronised cultures of yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae provide ideal material for the study of mitochondria. While studying the oxygen uptake capacity of synchronously growing cultures, it was noticed that oxygen uptake increased and decreased in an oscillatory pattern. Such a pattern was repeated up to four cycles. This observed behavior is entirely different from the results reported earlier by others