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Computable early Caenorhabditis elegans embryo with a phase field model

Fig 5

The selective impact of cell division orientation on the developmental path.

Simulation for 6- to 8-cell stages with cell division orientations aligned to the three orthogonal body axes. All the division orientations of ABa (1^st column), ABp (2^nd column), EMS (3^rd column), and P2 (4^th, 5^th, 6^th columns with different volume segregation ratio) are set along the experimental (1^st row), anterior-posterior (2^nd row; x / A-P), left-right (3^rd row; y / L-R), and dorsal-ventral (4^th row; z / D-V) directions, respectively. The 3D structures whose cell-cell contact map is the same as the one simulated with experimental orientation, are highlighted with red rectangles.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009755.g005