Environment-dependent self-organization of positional information field in chemotaxis of Physarum plasmodium

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 178, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 341-353

  Miyake, Yoshihiro ^a   Tabata, Sunao ^a   Murakami, Hirofumi ^a   Yano, Masafumi ^b   Shimizu, Hiroshi ^a,c  

^a KANAZAWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CHEMOTAXIS; COORDINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNGUS GROWTH; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MYXOMYCOTA; NONHUMAN; POSITION EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029928017     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1996.0030     Document Type: Article

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