Figure 1.

A schematic showing the proposed dependencies of various cellular features on cell volume where several of these relationships are connected to cell volume through several layers of dependencies. It should be noted that many of these features are intimately connected with cellular metabolism and energetics and that these connections have not been drawn in this figure. For example, previous work has shown that the growth rate, μ, is connected to the total cell size via the scaling of total metabolism and the energetics of basic maintenance requirements (Kempes et al., 2012).