Robustness of morphogen gradients with bucket brigade transport through membrane-associated non-receptors

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 721-739

  Lei, Jinzhi ^a   Wang, Dongyong ^b   Song, You ^c   Nie, Qing ^b   Wan, Frederic Y M ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Existence and uniqueness; Functional boundary value problem; Morphogen gradient; Reaction diffusion equation; Robustness; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874669761     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2013.18.721     Document Type: Article

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