Autonomous Synchronization of Chemically Coupled Synthetic Oscillators

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2678-2706

  Lang, Moritz ^a   Marquez Lago, Tatiana T ^a   Stelling, Jörg ^a   Waldherr, Steffen ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Kuramoto analysis; Spatial waves; Synchronization; Synthetic oscillators

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CELL COMMUNICATION; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CELL COMMUNICATION; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 81255187954     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-011-9642-8     Document Type: Article

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