title: Making Waves toward the Shore by Synchronicity.
abstract: A study by Tsiairis and Aulehla (2016), published in Cell, reveals that randomized mixtures of dissociated presomitic mesoderm (PSM) cells reestablish wave-like propagating patterns of oscillatory gene expression by tuning the oscillation dynamics in response to surrounding cells. Thus, PSM cells self-organize the phase-coupled oscillators.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Shogoin-Kawahara, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan; World Premier International Research Initiative-Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiromi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shimojo
authors.affiliation: Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Shogoin-Kawahara, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan; World Premier International Research Initiative-Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan; Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan; Kyoto University Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan. Electronic address: rkageyam@virus.kyoto-u.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Ryoichiro
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kageyama
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001683:Biological Clocks; D004622:Embryo, Mammalian / Q000378:metabolism*; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D008648:Mesoderm / Q000378:metabolism*; D020897:Organizers, Embryonic / Q000378:metabolism*