Table 2.

Average difference between electrical phase parameters, plus or minus one standard deviation (n = 5 experiments), along with the p-value obtained by applying a paired Student’s t-test to pairs of Ste2Δ cell suspensions, one with and one without α-factor added to it.

	${\mathit{\epsilon }}_{\mathit{w}}$	${\mathit{\kappa }}_{\mathit{w}}(\mathbf{mS}/\mathbf{m})$	${\mathit{\epsilon }}_{\mathit{c}\mathit{m}}$	${\mathit{\epsilon }}_{\mathit{c}\mathit{p}}$	${\mathit{\kappa }}_{\mathit{c}\mathit{p}}(\mathbf{S}/\mathbf{m})$
$\langle {\delta }_m\rangle$	−2.4 ± 3.5	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.04	−3.5 ± 2.1	−0.015 ± 0.006
p	0.21	1.0	0.84	0.020	0.007