A mathematical framework for understanding the spontaneous emergence of complexity applicable to growing multicellular systems

• Lu Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Center for Quantitative Biology, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Gang Xue,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China

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• Xiaolin Zhou,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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• Jiandong Huang ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jdhuang@hku.hk (JH); zhiyuanli@pku.edu.cn (ZL)

  Affiliations School of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China

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• Zhiyuan Li

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jdhuang@hku.hk (JH); zhiyuanli@pku.edu.cn (ZL)

  Affiliations Center for Quantitative Biology, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6662-2636

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