Figure 4. Correlation between motion and reaction.
(a) Time series of the moving average of the speed of center of mass,
, taken along the trajectory of the amoeboid-like
motion of Figure 3 (black
line) and
taken along the trajectory of the keratocyte-like
locomotion of Figure 4 (red
line).
of the amoeboid-like type oscillates with a period of
about 200 s. but
of the keratocyte-like type does not oscillate
significantly. (b) A scatter plot on the plane of
, and
of the amoeboid-like locomotion, where
is the portion of area in which the concentration of
cortical factor is low in a cell. The plot shows the strong correlation
between
and
.
