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The role of cell geometry and cell-cell communication in gradient sensing
Fig 5
Dependence of the SNR on the number of cells.
Box plots comparing the set of 
values for configurations with different number of cells and mean polygon number 6. The results are obtained by combining up to 10 sets of cell configurations each. A: Weak-local (ISD) communication: D = 10.0 μm2/s, α = 1.0 s−1. B: Weak (NNE) communication: γNNE = 0.1 s−1. C: Strong-local (ISD) communication: D = 10.0 μm2/s, α = 100.0 s−1. D: Strong (NNE) communication: γNNE = 10.0 s−1. E: Weak-global (ISD) communication: D = 1000.0 μm2/s, α = 1.0 s−1. The ⋆ indicates statistically significant results (see Materials and methods for further details), the CLES are reported in S1 Table.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009552.g005