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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-50690-3
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- LabEx INFORM [ANR-11-LABX-0054]
- A*MIDEX project - the Investissements d'Avenir French Government program [ANR-11-IDEX-0001-02]
- ANR [ANR-17-CE13-0032]
- French National Research Agency [ANR-10-INBS-04-01]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-17-CE13-0032] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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Morphogenesis relies on the active generation of forces, and the transmission of these forces to surrounding cells and tissues. Hence measuring forces directly in developing embryos is an essential task to study the mechanics of development. Among the experimental techniques that have emerged to measure forces in epithelial tissues, force inference is particularly appealing. Indeed it only requires a snapshot of the tissue, as it relies on the topology and geometry of cell contacts, assuming that forces are balanced at each vertex. However, establishing force inference as a reliable technique requires thorough validation in multiple conditions. Here we performed systematic comparisons of force inference with laser ablation experiments in four epithelial tissues from two animals, the fruit fly and the quail. We show that force inference accurately predicts single junction tension, tension patterns in stereotyped groups of cells, and tissue-scale stress patterns, in wild type and mutant conditions. We emphasize its ability to capture the distribution of forces at different scales from a single image, which gives it a critical advantage over perturbative techniques such as laser ablation. Overall, our results demonstrate that force inference is a reliable and efficient method to quantify the mechanical state of epithelia during morphogenesis, especially at larger scales when inferred tensions and pressures are binned into a coarse-grained stress tensor.
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