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. 2013 Dec 31;8(12):e85420. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085420

Figure 3. Frequency distribution of the area ratio for 1,514,771 individual vein junctions across all leaves.

Figure 3

The mean and median are equal to the expectation for Murray’s law when daughter branches are symmetric. The distribution spans the range of expected values from 0 to 2, which includes area-preserving branching as well.