TABLE 5.

Shmooing in mating cultures and α-pheromone-treated cells derived from log- versus stationary-phase cultures^a

Condition	Cell origin	Proportion of shmoos at 3 h (%)	Fold increase in cell number at 3 h	Proportion of singlets (%) at:		% Change after 3 h	Proportion of budding cells (%) at:		% Change after 3 h
				0 h	3 h		0 h	3 h
a/a-α/α mating mixture	Log phase	4	2.0	58	50	−8	42	45	+3
	Stat.b phase	25	2.4	92	60	−30	8	15	+7
α-Pheromone-treated a/a cells	Log phase	35	2.3	58	44	−14	42	24	−20
	Stat. phase	73	1.7	92	19	−73	8	12	+4

^aLog- and stationary-phase cells were diluted into fresh medium containing 3 × 10⁻⁶ M chemically synthesized α-pheromone (Lockhart et al. [35]) at a final cell density of 2 × 10⁶ per ml.

^bStat., stationary.