Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Biological Pattern Formation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. General Models of Pattern Formation: Some Uses, Problems and Successes

   • J. D. Murray

   Pages 1-9

3. Process and Outcome: Evolutionary Analysis of Morphological Patterns

   • P. Alberch, M. J. Blanco

   Pages 11-20

4. Retinoic Acid cannot be the Morphogen in Reaction-Diffusion Models for the Formation of the Chick Wing Bud

   • Yannis Almirantis, Spyros Papageorgiou

   Pages 21-28

5. Pattern Formation in Heterogeneous Domains

   • Debbie L. Benson, Philip K. Maini, Jonathan A. Sherratt

   Pages 29-32

6. A Field Model of Symmetry Reversals in the Pattern Regulation of a Cell

   • Wendy A. M. Brandts

   Pages 33-36

7. Patterning in Limbs: The Resolution of Positional Confrontations

   • Susan V. Bryant, Terry F. Hayamizu, David M. Gardiner

   Pages 37-44

8. The Development of a Spatial Pattern in a Model for Cancer Growth

   • Mark A. J. Chaplain

   Pages 45-59

9. Sequential and Synchronous Skin Pattern Formation

   • Gerhard C. Cruywagen, P. K. Maini, J. D. Murray

   Pages 61-64

10. Control of Gap Junction Permeability can Control Pattern Formation in Limb Development

    • R. Dillon, H. G. Othmer

    Pages 65-81

11. Wave Patterns in One-Dimensional Nonlinear Degenerate Diffusion Equations

    • Faustino Sánchez-Garduño, Philip K. Maini

    Pages 83-86

12. Mapping Gene Activities into Morphological Patterns in Drosophila

    • Brian Goodwin, Stuart Kauffman

    Pages 87-99

13. Trajectories of Swimming Micro-Organisms and Continuum Models of Bioconvection

    • N. A. Hill

    Pages 101-103

14. Testing the Theoretical Models for Limb Patterning

    • J. R. Hinchliffe, T. J. Horder

    Pages 105-119

15. The Chicken and the Egg

    • T. J. Horder

    Pages 121-148

16. Supercomputer Simulation of Turing Structures in Drosophila Morphogenesis

    • Axel Hunding

    Pages 149-159

17. The Role of Hox Genes in Axis Specification

    • Paul Hunt, Robb Krumlauf

    Pages 161-181

18. Looking at Early Development in Xenopus Laevis Using Nmr Micro-Imaging

    • Russell E. Jacobs, Scott E. Fraser

    Pages 183-190

19. Mechanism of Local Chaos in Active Distributed Media

    • B. S. Kerner

    Pages 191-210

20. Patterns Formed Through Cell-Cell Interactions: Spontaneous Selection of Dominant Directions

    • Leah Edelstein-Keshet

    Pages 211-221

This volume contains the proceedings of the NATO ARW on 'Biological Pattern Formation' held at Merton College, University of Oxford, on 27-31 August, 1992. The objective of the workshop was to bring together a select group of theoreticians and experimental biologists to present the latest results in the area of biological pattern formation and to foster interactiqn across dis- plines. The workshop was divided into 5 main areas: (i) limb development, (ii) Dictyostelium discoideum, (iii) Drosophila, (iv) cell movement, (v) g- eral pattern formation. We thank all the participants for their contributions, enthusiasm, and willingness to collaborate. There was a genuine, open, and extremely fru- ful interaction between the experimentalists and theoreticians which made the workshop a success. We also thank The Welcome Trust for providing additional funding. The local organization fell mainly on Denise McKittrick and Beverley Bhaskhare at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford, and Jeanette Hudson and the staff of Merton College. We greatly appreciate their help and patience. We also thank Jonathan Sherratt, Wendy Brandts and Debbie Benson for helping out in the conference and for providing a happy welcome to parti- pants on a typically cold, wet and windy English summer day.

• Drosophila
• development
• genes
• growth
• microorganisms

• University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

  Hans G. Othmer

• University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK

  Philip K. Maini

• University of Washington, Seattle, USA

  James D. Murray

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