DOI: 10.1039/d6sm00715e ISSN: 1744-683X
Emergence of hexanematic order in a growing confluent cell monolayer
Hon Lin Too, Farisan Dary, Isaac Si Yuan Ling, Dustin Erhard Theofilus, Duo Zhang, Haiyi Liang, Ee Hou YongA minimal biophysical model reveals hexanematic order in collective migration – larger nematic cells concentrate at the tissue periphery, while smaller hexatic cells remain in the bulk, driven by free-space-biased motion, cell growth, and division.