On the correlation between sizes and shapes of cells in epithelial mosaics
- 1 March 1982
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 15 (3) , L143-L148
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/15/3/012
Abstract
It is shown that Lewis's empirical, linear relationship between the average area of a cell and the number of its sides in two-dimensional mosaics corresponds to maximal arbitrariness in the cellular distribution. An expression for the distribution is given in the general case.Keywords
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