Title | Morphogenesis and Pattern Formation in Biological Systems [electronic resource] : Experiments and Models / edited by Toshio Sekimura, Sumihare Noji, Naoto Ueno, Philip K. Maini |
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Imprint | Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2003 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-65958-7 |
Descript | XX, 398 p. 344 illus., 32 illus. in color. online resource |
Models for Morphogenesis and Pattern Formation -- Pattern Forming Reactions and the Generation of Primary Embryonic Axes -- Spatial Pattern Formation and Morphogenesis in Development: Recent Progress for Two Model Systems -- Alan Turing and โThe Chemical Basis of Morphogenesisโ -- On the Stochastic Geometry of Growth -- The Moving Grid Finite Element Method Applied to Biological Problems -- Morphogenesis and Pattern Formation in Animals -- Regulation of Pattern Formation by the Interaction between Growth Factors and Proteoglycans -- Changing Roles of Homeotic Gene Functions in Arthropod Limb Development -- Variation, Adaptation and Developmental Constraints in the Mimetic Butterfly Papilio dardanus -- Formation of New Organizing Regions by Cooperation of hedgehog, wingless, and dpp in Regeneration of the Insect Leg; a Verification of the Boundary Model -- The Heterotopic Shift in Developmental Patterns and Evolution of the Jaw in Vertebrates -- Morphogenesis and Pattern Formation in Plants -- The Development of Cell Pattern in the Arabidopsis Root Epidermis -- Pattern Formation during Dicotyledonous Plant Embryogenesis -- Regulation of Inflorescence Architecture and Organ Shape by the ERECTA Gene in Arabidopsis -- Axis-dependent Regulation of Lateral Organ Development in Plants -- Formation of a Symmetric Flat Leaf Lamina in Arabidopsis -- Morphogenesis and Pattern Formation Viewed from the Behaviour of Individual Cells -- Pattern Formation by Cell Movement in Closely-Packed Tissues -- Positioning of Cells at their Intrinsic Sites in Multicellular Organisms -- Spatial Pattern and Structure Formation in Ecological Systems -- Biological Invasion into Periodically Fragmented Environments: A Diffusion-Reaction Model -- Spatial Pattern Formation in Plant Communities -- The Mode of Competition and Spatial Pattern Formation in Plant Communities -- Formation of a Structure of Exponentially Forking Branches with a Steady-state Amount of Current-year Shoots in a Hardwood Tree Crown -- Spatio-Temporal Pattern Formation in Epidemiology -- Patterns in Epidemiology of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Human Populations -- Backward Bifurcation in a Model for Vector Transmitted Disease -- Morphogenesis and Pattern Formation in Medicine -- Mathematical Modelling of Solid Tumour Growth: Applications of Pre-pattern Formation -- The Formation of Branching Systems in Human Organs -- Computer Simulation on Morphogenesis of Colonic Neoplasia -- The Effects of Cell Adhesion on Solid Tumour Geometry -- Diversity of Biological Patterns in the Fossil Record and Their Meaning in Morphological Evolution -- Pattern Formation and Function in Palaeobiology -- Why do Univalve Shells of Gastropods Coil so Tightly? A Head-Foot Guidance Model of Shell Growth and its Implication on Developmental Constraints -- Computer Modeling of Microscopic Features of Molluscan Shells -- How Anomalocaris Swam in the Cambrian Sea; A Theoretical Study Based on Hydrodynamics -- Morphology and Function of Cuticular Terraces in Stomatopoda (Crustacea) and Mantodea (Insecta)