Forging patterns and making waves from biology to geology: A commentary on Turing (1952) ‘The chemical basis of morphogenesis’

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1666, 2015, Pages

  Ball, Philip ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal markings; Chemical kinetics; Developmental biology; Morphogenesis; Pattern formation; Reaction diffusion

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EMBRYO; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MORPHOGENESIS; PIGMENT;

ANIMALIA; EQUUS SUBG. HIPPOTIGRIS;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; GEOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; MARKOV CHAIN; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOLOGY; GEOLOGY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84924303138     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0218     Document Type: Review

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