Scientific Reports 6:12; doi:10.1038/s41598-016-0010-7; Article published online 05 December 2016

This Article contains a typographical error in the Methods section, under the subheading “Growing cell simulation model”, where:

“When the i-th cell has doubled its length it splits into two equal cells i 1 and i 2 of length \({\ell }_{0}\), located at \({{\bf{r}}}_{{i}_{1},{i}_{2}}={{\bf{r}}}_{i}\pm {\hat{{\bf{e}}}}_{i}{\ell }_{0}/4\) and with orientation \({{\bf{e}}}_{{i}_{1},{i}_{2}}={\ell }_{0}{\mathscr{R}}[{\hat{{\bf{e}}}}_{i}]\)”.

should read:

“When the i-th cell has doubled its length it splits into two equal cells i 1 and i 2 of length \({\ell }_{0}\), located at \({{\bf{r}}}_{{i}_{1},{i}_{2}}={{\bf{r}}}_{i}\pm {\hat{{\bf{e}}}}_{i}{\ell }_{0}/2\) and with orientation \({{\bf{e}}}_{{i}_{1},{i}_{2}}={\ell }_{0}{\mathscr{R}}[{\hat{{\bf{e}}}}_{i}]\)”.