Breakdown of Rheological Universality in the Vegetal Hemisphere of Ascidian Embryos Mapped by Atomic Force Microscopy
Yuki Miyata, Miki L. Yamamoto, Takahiro Kotani, Yosuke Tsuboyama, Takaharu Okajima
The paper uses AFM to show that vegetal hemisphere cells in ascidian embryos exhibit diverse rheological properties, unlike the uniform behavior of animal hemisphere cells.
bioRxiv · Jan 24, 2026 · PreprintBiophysics