Minimal model of a cell connecting amoebic motion and adaptive transport networks

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 253, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 659-667

  Gunji, Yukio Pegio ^a   Shirakawa, Tomohiro ^b   Niizato, Takayuki ^a   Haruna, Taichi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive network; Amoebic motion; Cell model; Natural computing; Physarum

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; MODELING; MOTILITY;

ADAPTATION; AMOEBA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DESTRUCTION; CELL MOTION; CELL SHAPE; CELL TRANSPORT; CYTOPLASM; HARDNESS; MAZE TEST; PHYSARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALGORITHMS; AMOEBA; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYBERNETICS; CYTOPLASMIC STREAMING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING;

PHYSARUM;

EID: 47849099324     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.04.017     Document Type: Article

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