Mathematical models for biological pattern formulation
Subtitle: frontiers in biological mathematics
By: Philip K. Maini, Hans G. Othmer, editors
Contributors: Maini, Philip K; Othmer, H. G. 1943-
Series: The IMA volumes in mathematics and its applications -- v. 121
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Pattern formation (Biology) -- Mathematical models
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Biological pattern formation - a marriage of theory and experiment / J.D. Murray; title: Spatiotemporal pattern formation in early development: a review of primitive streak formation and somitogenesis / S. Schnell, K.J. Painter, P.K. Maini, H.G. Othmer; title: Mathematical modeling of vertebrate limb development / Robert H. Dillon; title: Models for pigment pattern formation in the skin of fishes / K.J. Painter; title: Generic modelling of vegetation patterns. A case study of Tiger Bush in sub-Saharian Sahel / R. Lefever, O. Lejeune, P. Couteron; title: Chemical Turing patterns: A model system of a paradigm for morphogenesis / David J. Wollkind, Laura E. Stephenson; title: Beyond spots and stripes: generation of more complex patterns by modifications and additions of the basic reaction / Hans Meinhardt; title: Spatiotemporal patterning in models of juxtracrine intercellular signalling with feedback; title: Nicholas A.M. Monk, Jonathan A. Sherratt, Markus R. Owen; title: Modelling Dictyostelium discoideum morphogenesis / Bakhtier Vasiev, Cornelis J. Weijer; title: Modeling branching and chiral colonial patterning of lubricating bacteria / Eshel Ben-Jacob, Inon Cohen, Ido Golding, Yonathan Kozlovsky; title: Modeling self-propelled deformable cell motion in the Dictyostelium mound; a status report / Wouter-Jan Rappel, Herbert Levine, Alastair Nicol, William F. Loomis; title: A minimal model of locomotion applied to the steady gliding movement of fish keratocyte cells / A. Mogilner, E. Marland, D. Bottino; title: Computer simulations of mechanochemical coupling in a deforming domain: applications to cell motion / Dean C. Bottino