Brainless bodies: Controlling the development and behavior of multicellular animats by gene regulation and diffusive signals

Artificial Life 13: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 349-356

  Joachimczak, M ^a   Kowaliw, T ^b   Doursat, R ^b,c   Wrobel B ^a,d,e  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^d ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; DRAG; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; TRANSCRIPTION;

ARTIFICIAL GENE; ELASTIC SPRINGS; EVALUATION PHASE; EXPRESSION LEVELS; GENOMIC SEQUENCE; LOCOMOTION CONTROLLERS; REGULATORY REGIONS; SIMULATED FLUIDS;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 84874739249     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.7551/978-0-262-31050-5-ch046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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