Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Biological Pattern Formation

1. General Models of Pattern Formation: Some Uses, Problems and Successes.- 2. Process and Outcome: Evolutionary Analysis of Morphological Patterns.- 3. Retinoic Acid Cannot Be the Morphogen in Reaction-Diffusion Models for the Formation of the Chick Wing Bud.- 4. Pattern Formation in Heterogeneous Domains.- 5. A Field Model of Symmetry Reversals in the Pattern Regulation of a Cell.- 6. Patterning in Limbs: The Resolution of Positional Confrontations.- 7. The Development of a Spatial Pattern in a Model for Cancer Growth.- 8. Sequential and Synchronous Skin Pattern Formation.- 9. Control of Gap Junction Permeability Can Control Pattern Formation in Limb Development.- 10. Wave Patterns in One-Dimensional Nonlinear Degenerate Diffusion Equations.- 11. Mapping Gene Activities into Morphological Patterns in Drosophila.- 12. Trajectories of Swimming Micro-Organisms and Continuum Models of Bioconvection.- 13. Testing the Theoretical Models for Limb Patterning.- 14. The Chicken and the Egg.- 15. Supercomputer Simulation of Turing Structures in Drosophila Morphogenesis.- 16. The Role of Hox Genes in Axis Specification.- 17. Looking at Early Development in Xenopus laevis Using NMR Micro-Imaging.- 18. Mechanism of Local Chaos in Active Distributed Media.- 19. Patterns Formed through Cell-Cell Interactions: Spontaneous Selection of Dominant Directions.- 20. Controlling Reaction-Diffusion Pattern with Gradients: Lessons from Drosophila, and Trajectories through Parameter Space.- 21. Steady-State Patterns in a Reaction Diffusion System with Mixed Boundary Conditions.- 22. Pattern Control in Hydra: Basic Experiments and Concepts.- 23. Predicted and Observed Spatial Prepatterns in (Hair) Wool Follicle Bulbs.- 24. The Speed of a Brownian Ratchet.- 25. Oscillations and Waves in a Model of InsP3-Controlled Calcium Dynamics.- 26. Four Signals to Shape a Slime Mold.- 27. Modelling Actin Filament Alignment.- 28. The Motile Behavior of Amoebae in the Aggregation Wave in Dictyostelium discoideum.- 29. Retinoic Acid: An Autocatalytic Morphogen.- 30. The Hardware and Software of Morphogenesis: Studies with the Dictyostelium discoideum Slug, a Simple Tissue.- 31. Factors Controlling the Directionality of Mesoderm Cell Migration in the Xenopus Gastrula.- 32. Analysis and Modelling of the Organization of the Mammalian Cerebral Cortex.