Rotation of sex combs in Drosophila melanogaster requires precise and coordinated spatio-temporal dynamics from forces generated by epithelial cells
Fig 7
Statistics on ABASCT standard deviation for both experiment and simulated SC rotations.
A Graph of ABASCT SD vs. SC length in experiments. Please see Table 4 for details on the mutant genotypes studied. B Graph of aggregate ABASCT SD statistics of simulated and intact rotated SCs, grouped by adhesion parameters, of all SC lengths examined. C Example outputs showing interplay between adhesion and expansion of epithelial cells on ABASCT SD. Upper panel. Higher ABASCT SD is generally obtained in rotated SCs with stronger adhesion between SC teeth. This 5-tooth example is drawn from the adhesion parameter regime marked with “#” in B. Lower panel. Lower ABASCT SD is generally obtained in rotated SCs with weaker adhesion between SC teeth. This 5-tooth example is drawn from the adhesion parameter regimes marked with “##” in B. D Example outputs showing “slowed down” rotation of 5-tooth SCs. With the exception of a larger τ for epithelial cell expansion, the example from the left panel shares identical parameters with the top one in C (adhesion parameter regime marked with “#”), while the example from the right panel has the same parameters as the bottom one in C (adhesion parameter regime marked with “##”).