Comparison of Fully-labelled Experiments with Simulations.

<p>(A) Direct comparison between simulations and typical experimental kymographs. (i) A typical short experimental cell. Stationary patterning with stochastic switching is seen below 2.7<i>μm</i> and regular oscillations above 2.7<i>μm</i>. (ii) A simulation of a short cell with the same length and growth rate as the experimental kymograph in (i). Below 2.7<i>μm</i> it is stationary, and above it oscillates regularly. (iii) A typical mid length experimental cell showing the gradual transition from box to spearhead shaped waveforms. (iv) A simulation of a mid range cell with the same length and growth rate as the experimental kymograph in (iii). (B) The variation in the second order transition. (i) An experimental example of a first type transition with a complex mixing of first and second order modes occurring between the first and second order breather modes. (ii) A theoretical example of a first type transition with mode mixing. This cell was grown at a rate of 0.5 <i>nm s</i>^<i>-1</i>(iii) An experimental example displaying a second type transition moving straight from the first to the second order breather modes. (iv) A theoretical example of a second type transition grown at 0.67 <i>nm s</i>^<i>-1</i>. (C) Changes to Min system under a reduced MinE to MinD ratio. (i) An experimental cell showing an increase in both the period and the transition length. MinD antinodes reach closer to the centre of the cell than normal (ii) A simulation containing 90% of the usual MinE concentration displaying similar characteristics.