Cell Sorting and Noise-Induced Cell Plasticity Coordinate to Sharpen Boundaries between Gene Expression Domains

• Qixuan Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Qixuan Wang, William R. Holmes

  Affiliations Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4511-6843

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• William R. Holmes ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Qixuan Wang, William R. Holmes

  Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States of America

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• Julian Sosnik,

  Affiliations Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0528-9929

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• Thomas Schilling,

  Affiliations Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1798-8695

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• Qing Nie

  * E-mail: qnie@math.uci.edu

  Affiliations Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8804-3368

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