Functional Analysis of Spontaneous Cell Movement under Different Physiological Conditions (original) (raw)
Figure 1
Dictyostelium cell in the vegetative and starved state, along with the corresponding cellular trajectories.
(a) and (c) are vegetative, (b) and (d) are starved (for 5.5 hr). Scale bar is 10 ยต_m_. In each case, we plot the trajectories of 20 cells for 40 minutes. All original cell positions are set to the axis origin. As development proceeds, cell polarity also develops.