Self-Similar Tip Growth in Filamentary Organisms

Alain Goriely, Michael Tabor

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Abstract

The growth of a family of filamentary microorganisms is described in terms of self-similar growth at the tip which is driven by pressure and sustained by a wall-building growth process. The cell wall is modeled biomechanically as a stretchable elastic membrane using large-deformation elasticity theory. Incorporation of geometry dependent elastic moduli and a self-similar ansatz shows how these equations can generate realistic tip shapes corresponding to a self-similar expansion process.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)4
Number of pages1
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume90
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2003

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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