Thermodynamics and Pattern Formation in Biology

Ingolf Lamprecht, A. I. Zotin, Ingolf Lamprecht, A. I. Zotin

• Editorial: De Gruyter
• Año: 2019
• ISBN:
  9783110848403
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Biological Sciences
• Categoría: Biophysics

Índice

• Preface
• Contents
• General Problems
• Some Basic Principles for the Formation of Structure in Nonlinear Systems of Thermodynamic Kind
• Topologically Stable Patterns in Condensed Matter
• New Types of Order and Stochastic Regimes in Nonlinear Media
• Chirality Wave Propagation and the First Evolutionary Catastrophe
• Nonlinear Bioenergetics
• Selection Between Aging Species
• Pattern Formation in Chemical and Biochemical Systems
• Pattern Formation and Wave Propagation in Chemical Systems
• Spatial Ordering Processes in Chemical Reactions
• Evolution of Populations of Biothermodynamic Systems Including Birth and Death-Processes
• Monitoring Oscillating Chemical Reactions: The Rate of Heat Production and the Simultaneous Measurement of Other Physical Signals
• Rate Limiting Steps in Oscillating Plant Glycolysis: Experimental Evidence for Control Sites Additional to Phosphofructokinase
• Dynamic Structures in the Fructose-6-Phosphate/Fructose' 1,6-Bisphosphatase Cycle
• Pattern Formation in Biological Systems
• Morphogenesis of Behaviour and Information Compression in Biological Systems
• Model of Pattern Generation on Plants, Based on the Principles of Minimal Entropy Production
• Structures in Models of Morphogenesis
• Self-Organisation of Biological Morphogenesis: General Approaches and Topo-Geometrical Models
• Topological and Thermodynamic Structures of Morphogenesis
• Fractal Shapes of Cell Membranes and Pattern Formation by Dichotomous Branching Processes
• Autowave Mechanochemical Model for Physarum Shuttle Streaming
• Statistical Geometry of Tissues
• Surface Changes and Shape Formation During Organism Growth
• List of Contributors
• References
• Subject Index