Origin of multicellular organisms as an inevitable consequence of dynamical systems

Anatomical Record

Volumn 268, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 327-342

  Furusawa, Chikara ^a   Kaneko, Kunihiko ^b  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell differentiation; Chaos; Evolution; Germ line; Life cycle; Positional information; Robustness; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL TYPE; COLONY FORMATION; GERM LINE; LIFE CYCLE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; STEM CELL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOGENESIS; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PHYSIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; STEM CELLS; SYSTEMS THEORY;

EID: 0036829981     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.10164     Document Type: Article

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