Cellular organization in lab-evolved and extant multicellular species obeys a maximum entropy law.
dc.contributor.author | Day, Thomas C | |
dc.contributor.author | Höhn, Stephanie S | |
dc.contributor.author | Zamani-Dahaj, Seyed A | |
dc.contributor.author | Yanni, David | |
dc.contributor.author | Burnetti, Anthony | |
dc.contributor.author | Pentz, Jennifer | |
dc.contributor.author | Honerkamp-Smith, Aurelia R | |
dc.contributor.author | Wioland, Hugo | |
dc.contributor.author | Sleath, Hannah R | |
dc.contributor.author | Ratcliff, William C | |
dc.contributor.author | Goldstein, Raymond | |
dc.contributor.author | Yunker, Peter J | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-28T19:05:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-03-28T19:05:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-02-21 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2050-084X | |
dc.identifier.other | 35188101 | |
dc.identifier.other | PMC8860445 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/335389 | |
dc.description.abstract | The prevalence of multicellular organisms is due in part to their ability to form complex structures. How cells pack in these structures is a fundamental biophysical issue, underlying their functional properties. However, much remains unknown about how cell packing geometries arise, and how they are affected by random noise during growth - especially absent developmental programs. Here, we quantify the statistics of cellular neighborhoods of two different multicellular eukaryotes: lab-evolved 'snowflake' yeast and the green alga Volvox carteri. We find that despite large differences in cellular organization, the free space associated with individual cells in both organisms closely fits a modified gamma distribution, consistent with maximum entropy predictions originally developed for granular materials. This 'entropic' cellular packing ensures a degree of predictability despite noise, facilitating parent-offspring fidelity even in the absence of developmental regulation. Together with simulations of diverse growth morphologies, these results suggest that gamma-distributed cell neighborhood sizes are a general feature of multicellularity, arising from conserved statistics of cellular packing. | |
dc.language | eng | |
dc.publisher | eLife Sciences Publications Ltd | |
dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.source | essn: 2050-084X | |
dc.source | nlmid: 101579614 | |
dc.subject | S. cerevisiae | |
dc.subject | Entropy | |
dc.subject | Volvox | |
dc.subject | Multicellularity | |
dc.subject | Physics Of Living Systems | |
dc.subject | Snowflake Yeast | |
dc.subject | Yeasts | |
dc.subject | Directed Molecular Evolution | |
dc.subject | Phylogeny | |
dc.subject | Cell Size | |
dc.title | Cellular organization in lab-evolved and extant multicellular species obeys a maximum entropy law. | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-03-28T19:05:24Z | |
prism.publicationName | Elife | |
prism.volume | 11 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.17863/CAM.82818 | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2022-01-04 | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.7554/eLife.72707 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | |
rioxxterms.licenseref.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.contributor.orcid | Day, Thomas C [0000-0003-4681-9348] | |
dc.contributor.orcid | Höhn, Stephanie S [0000-0003-1815-705X] | |
dc.contributor.orcid | Goldstein, Raymond [0000-0003-2645-0598] | |
dc.contributor.orcid | Yunker, Peter J [0000-0001-8471-4171] | |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2050-084X | |
pubs.funder-project-id | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/M017982/1) | |
pubs.funder-project-id | Wellcome Trust (207510/Z/17/Z) |
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