Cellular organization in lab-evolved and extant multicellular species obeys a maximum entropy law
T. C. Day, S. S. Höhn, S. A. Zamani-Dahaj, D. Yanni, A. Burnetti, J. Pentz, A. R. Honerkamp-Smith, H. Wioland, H. R. Sleath, W. C. Ratcliff, R. E. Goldstein, P. J. Yunker
The paper quantifies cell packing in two multicellular organisms and finds that free space around cells follows a gamma distribution, suggesting an entropic principle underlying multicellular organization.
bioRxiv · Jul 29, 2021Biophysics