Autocrine signaling can explain the emergence of Allee effects in cancer cell populations

• Philip Gerlee ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gerlee@chalmers.se

  Affiliations Mathematical Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, Mathematical Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8503-0177

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• Philipp M. Altrock,

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

  Affiliations Department of Integrated Mathematical Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, Department of Evolutionary Theory, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7731-3345

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• Adam Malik,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1356-9039

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• Cecilia Krona,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6458-1949

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• Sven Nelander

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1758-1262

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