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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 16.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Biotheor. 2015 Mar 31;63(3):283–294. doi: 10.1007/s10441-015-9249-9

Fig. 10.

Fig. 10

An example with seven stem cells and their corresponding tissue survival areas. Each stem cell generates different tissue: a head (green), a left and a right side of the trunk (blue), a tail (yellow), two eyes in the head and pharynx in the trunk (black). The stem cell configuration remains stable during the tissue formation, determining the final shape of the organism. The images show: a) the initial and, at the same time, the ideal configuration of stem cells, b) and c) intermediate stages of tissue formation, d) the final shape of the organism with all tissue being fully developed.