Avalanches during epithelial tissue growth; Uniform Growth and a drosophila eye disc model
Fig 5
A: Average cell area versus avalanche magnitude. The avalanche magnitude is quantified as the percent discontinuity in the total area. The more tightly packed the epithelium, right before the onset of the avalanche, the larger the total area discontinuity. B: Log-log plot of probability density of avalanche magnitudes. The functional form supports the presence of an underlying power law distribution, with a fit shown by the orange line. The exponent found is τ = 1.25±0.06. Such power law distributions are a universal characteristic of avalanches found in nature.