Before revision:  The results are in quantitative agreement with the predictions of the incremental model , which leads to the ] addition of a constant volume ( up to fluctuations), independent of size at birth, between birth and division; we show that in URLanisms size at birth and size at division exhibit a linear relationship with slope one. This result, together with extended additional analysis supporting ] the incremental model, argues against the existing "critical size" paradigm for cell size control in bacteriaand yeast .
After revision:  The results are in quantitative agreement with the predictions of the incremental model , which leads to the ] addition of a constant volume ( in contrast to a size threshold), is able to quantitatively explain the experimental data on 4 different bacterial species ] the incremental model, argues against the existing "critical size" paradigm for cell size control in bacteriaand yeast .