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Modelling fungal hypha tip growth via viscous sheet approximation

T G de Jong1, J Hulshof2, G Prokert3

  • 1Media Analytics and Computing laboratory, School of Information Science and Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.

Journal of Theoretical Biology
|February 9, 2020
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Keywords:
Cell wall growthHypha growthViscous sheet

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