Turing's model for biological pattern formation and the robustness problem

Interface Focus

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 487-496

  Maini, Philip K ^a,b   Woolley, Thomas E ^a   Baker, Ruth E ^a   Gaffney, Eamonn A ^a   Seirin Lee, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biological pattern formation; Robustness problem; Turing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862701339     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2011.0113     Document Type: Review

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