A discrete cell model with adaptive signalling for aggregation of Dictyostelium discoideum

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 352, Issue 1351, 1997, Pages 391-417

  Dallon, John C ^a   Othmer, Hans G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

AMOEBAE; CAMP; CELL MOVEMENT; CHEMOTAXIS;

EID: 0031589922     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1997.0029     Document Type: Article

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