Fitting a Model to the Growth of Yeast Colonies

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Abstract
When yeast cells reproduce, scars are left on the parent cell where the offspring has budded. Using a branching process model, it is possible to obtain the expectations of numbers of cells with 0, 1, 2, ... off spring. The theoretical results are tested against empirical data for 3 types of yeast cells. An examination is made of the hypothesis that birth and death rates of cells with no previous offspring may differ from those of cells with 1 or more offspring. It is suggested that the oscillatory empirical results for the proportions of cells with 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 offspring may be due to different mean budding times for these cells.

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