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pith:ATVGCMCC

pith:2020:ATVGCMCCMAYTUQ6BYAFKDJTRZZ

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Topological defects promote layer formation in Myxococcus xanthus colonies

Joshua W. Shaevitz, Katherine Copenhagen, Ned S. Wingreen, Ricard Alert

arxiv:2001.03804 v3 · 2020-01-11 · physics.bio-ph · cond-mat.soft · q-bio.CB

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First computed	2026-07-05T02:42:40.531596Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

04ea61304260313a43c1c00aa1a671ce418d0fb2ed52340f38ea353d238afdb6

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arxiv: 2001.03804 · arxiv_version: 2001.03804v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2001.03804 · pith_short_12: ATVGCMCCMAYT · pith_short_16: ATVGCMCCMAYTUQ6B · pith_short_8: ATVGCMCC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ATVGCMCCMAYTUQ6BYAFKDJTRZZ \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 04ea61304260313a43c1c00aa1a671ce418d0fb2ed52340f38ea353d238afdb6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2eddfa54dd9cb4df5acce9b5c9c91f7555cb156aaa8d69edca7e75292fd43967",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.soft",
      "q-bio.CB"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-01-11T22:32:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3c6e4c5814061c12b0d631c252451214f7c32677ebd91c43ea5db0d3b2c82019"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2001.03804",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}