#scutoids

Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea The advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone, seen often in eukaryotes, rarely in bacteria, and only once in archaea. We show that uniaxial compression induces clonal multicellularity in haloarchaea, forming tissue-like ...

and so it happens that #scutoids play a key role in the tissue-like organization of archaea (too)!!
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@lmescu.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Scutoids are a geometrical solution to three-dimensional packing of epithelia #math #scutoids
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Two scutoids... a gran one and a yellow one.

Graphical abstract of the paper. We infer Forces from geometry to find that scutoids are necessary to form epithelial tubes.

So... Can be animals without #scutoids?
This a difficult question to answer, you cannot get mutants without scutoids.
So we designed a computational model to demonstrated that it is not possible to form epithelial tubes without apico-basal intercalations.
www.csbj.org/article/S200...

#scutoids at Colorado State University!!!

I hope that some day @unisevilla.bsky.social will also have some!!!!

VEIL - AREA C projects Anatomy + Zoology Building Health Education Outreach Center Colorado State University . Fort Collins, CO VEIL engages the ages-old notion of the body as a sealed chamber of wonders. Its two module...

Hi @tim-stasevich.bsky.social!!!

Do you work close to this???

www.areacprojects.com/filter/CSU/V...

Could you take a picture to know how are these two #scutoids doing?

Thank you!!!!!

Illustration with The Kelvin structure, The Wearie-Phelan structure and the scutoids.

And now in english... We are very happy! In this interesting article of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, the #scutoids reach the status of a reference shape to tile the 3D space; being compared with the Kelvin structure. #SciComm

www.scientificamerican.com/article/math... by @elisecutts.bsky.social

WARNING!!!!!

In this issue you can find an amazing paper.

Our lab and @baronelab.bsky.social working together to investigate how 3D epithelial packing and growth are coupled during #SeaStar embryo development.

We find that #scutoids are the favorite shape of the cells after mitosis.