| Range |
~ hexagons 45%: pentagons 25%: heptagons 20% %
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| Organism |
Various |
| Reference |
Gibson WT et al., Control of the mitotic cleavage plane by local epithelial topology. Cell. 2011 Feb 4 144(3):427-38. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2010.12.035. p.427 right column bottom paragraphPubMed ID21295702
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| Primary Source |
M.C. Gibson, A.B. Patel, R. Nagpal, N. Perrimon The emergence of geometric order in proliferating metazoan epithelia Nature, 442 (2006), pp. 1038–1041 & R.W. Korn, R.M. Spalding The geometry of plant epidermal cells New Phytol., 72 (1973), pp. 1357–1365 link & F.T. Lewis The correlation between cell division and the shapes and sizes of prismatic cells in the epidermis of cucumis Anat. Rec., 38 (1928), pp. 341–376 link PubMed ID16900102
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| Comments |
P.427 right column bottom paragraph:"Indeed, empirical investigation confirms that many monolayer cell sheets across the plant and animal kingdoms converge on a default equilibrium distribution of cellular shapes, with approximately 45% hexagons, 25% pentagons, and 20% heptagons (primary sources)." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
112080 |