A self-organized biomechanical network drives shape changes during tissue morphogenesis

Akankshi Munjal, Jean-Marc Philippe, Edwin Munro and Thomas Lecuit ()
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Akankshi Munjal: Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, IBDM UMR7288
Jean-Marc Philippe: Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, IBDM UMR7288
Edwin Munro: University of Chicago
Thomas Lecuit: Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, IBDM UMR7288

Nature, 2015, vol. 524, issue 7565, 351-355

Abstract: Feedbacks between the dissociation and advection of myosin II result in self-organized behaviour of actomyosin networks that drives shape changes during tissue morphogenesis.

Date: 2015
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