Diversity in emergent cell locomotion from the coupling cytosolic and cortical Marangoni flows with reaction–diffusion dynamics
Fig 5
Characteristic motility modes and shape phenotypes.
Colour codes denote the concentration of activator in the cortex (as shown by scale bars). Trajectory of the cell geometric centre is plotted with red colour for (A) stationary cells, (B) persistent runner cells, (C) alternating runner cells and the dependence of their time evolution of elongation and polarity. Vertical black lines denote moments in which the plotted snapshots were taken. (D) Circular runner cell’s trajectories and the associated velocity autocorrelation functions. (E) Run-and-turn cell trajectory is plotted separately on the right side and four circles mark the points in which snapshots plotted on the left side were taken. Videos showing the time evolution of presented cells, are provided in the Supporting information Section. The parameters for these simulations are given in Table D in S1 Appendix.