Integument pattern formation involves genetic and epigenetic controls: Feather arrays simulated by digital hormone models

International Journal of Developmental Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 117-135

  Jiang, Ting Xin ^a   Widelitz, Randall B ^a   Shen, Wei Min ^b   Will, Peter ^b   Wu, Da Yu ^a   Lin, Chih Min ^a   Jung, Han Sung ^c   Chuong, Cheng Ming ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Yonsei University College of Dentistry   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Periodic patterning; Reaction diffusion; Self configuring robot; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

CELL ADHESION; CELL BUDDING; CELL CLUSTER; CELL COUNT; DIFFUSION; DIGITAL HORMONE MODEL; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EPIGENETICS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEATHER; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; GENETIC REGULATION; INTEGUMENT; MODEL; MORPHOGENESIS; PERIODIC PATTERNING; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DERMATOGLYPHICS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEATHERS; HAIR; HUMANS; INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PIGMENTATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 3042616450     PISSN: 02146282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1387/ijdb.15272377     Document Type: Review

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