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Aboave-Weaire’s law in epithelia results from an angle constraint in contiguous polygonal lattices
(2019)bioRxivIt has long been noted that the cell arrangements in epithelia, regardless of their origin, exhibit some striking regularities: first, the average number of cell neighbours at the apical side is (close to) six. Second, the average apical cell area is linearly related to the number of neighbours, such that cells with larger apical area have on average more neighbours, a relation termed Lewis’ law. Third, Aboav-Weaire’s (AW) law relates the ...Working Paper