Pith Number

pith:VI5XRES4

pith:2015:VI5XRES4JXPNLJYNV2A7ML6EMD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cortical microtubule nucleation can organise the cytoskeleton of $Drosophila$ oocytes to define the anteroposterior axis

Daniel St. Johnston, H\'el\`ene Doerflinger, J\"orn Dunkel, Philipp Khuc Trong, Raymond E. Goldstein

arxiv:1509.07990 v1 · 2015-09-26 · q-bio.SC · cond-mat.soft · physics.bio-ph

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\pithnumber{VI5XRES4JXPNLJYNV2A7ML6EMD}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:31:54.971873Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aa3b78925c4dded5a70dae81f62fc460cd5feca5f6a6caea0d4c75085c5784ae

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.07990 · arxiv_version: 1509.07990v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.07990 · pith_short_12: VI5XRES4JXPN · pith_short_16: VI5XRES4JXPNLJYN · pith_short_8: VI5XRES4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VI5XRES4JXPNLJYNV2A7ML6EMD \
  | 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: aa3b78925c4dded5a70dae81f62fc460cd5feca5f6a6caea0d4c75085c5784ae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0bdb22416c8c6c69036e0f3a1c0c6eec7ca3f17ee99b0971ab090c3c8f214ef3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.soft",
      "physics.bio-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.SC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-26T15:07:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3a9c58302ec560a448b16aa7f3d8bdae796207682cac6983f0eaf1ebae2b1a90"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.07990",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}