Topological singularities and symmetry breaking in development

BioSystems

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 280-298

  Isaeva, Valeria V ^a,b   Kasyanov, Nickolay V ^c   Presnov, Eugene V ^d  

^a SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c Institute of Theory and History of Architecture and Town Planning   (Russian Federation)

^d VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Morphogenesis; Singularities; Symmetry breaking; Topological constraints

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHALASIN;

LANGUAGE; LITERATURE REVIEW; METAZOAN; MORPHOGENESIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SYMMETRY; TOPOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOSKELETON; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; FIBROBLAST; GAMETE; GASTRULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; SOMATIC CELL; THEORY; TOPOLOGICAL SINGULARITY; TOPOLOGICAL SYMMETRY;

METAZOA;

EID: 84865277740     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: 18728324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2012.05.004     Document Type: Article

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