Possible roles of mechanical cell elimination intrinsic to growing tissues from the perspective of tissue growth efficiency and homeostasis

Sang-Woo Lee; Yoshihiro Morishita

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005651

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Possible roles of mechanical cell elimination intrinsic to growing tissues from the perspective of tissue growth efficiency and homeostasis

Sang-Woo Lee ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sang-Woo Lee, Yoshihiro Morishita

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Developmental Morphogeometry, RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center, Kobe, Japan
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Yoshihiro Morishita

Contributed equally to this work with: Sang-Woo Lee, Yoshihiro Morishita

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: yoshihiro.morishita@riken.jp

Affiliation Laboratory for Developmental Morphogeometry, RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center, Kobe, Japan
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Possible roles of mechanical cell elimination intrinsic to growing tissues from the perspective of tissue growth efficiency and homeostasis

Sang-Woo Lee,
Yoshihiro Morishita

Published: July 13, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005651

About the Authors

Sang-Woo Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Sang-Woo Lee, Yoshihiro Morishita

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Developmental Morphogeometry, RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center, Kobe, Japan

Yoshihiro Morishita

Contributed equally to this work with: Sang-Woo Lee, Yoshihiro Morishita

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: yoshihiro.morishita@riken.jp

Affiliation Laboratory for Developmental Morphogeometry, RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center, Kobe, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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