Fig 4. Spatial regulation of mechanical cell properties can induce asymmetry of cell death occurrence inside posterior compartments.

(A) Schematic of the distinct forms of mechanical asymmetries considered in this work. (B) Snapshot of final configuration of simulations for each considered perturbation. (C) Comparison of P compartment areas and cell numbers for each of the considered perturbations with experimental values. Mean values from 100 simulations are shown and error bars are standard deviations. Parameter values are given in Table 1 and in the main text. Shaded areas mark the ranges of experimentally observed values and are added for reference and comparison with Fig 3, S1 and S2 Figs. (D) Comparison of accumulated number cell deaths over 100 simulations in the front and back halves of the P compartment for each of the considered perturbations.