Thermodynamics and Pattern Formation in Biology (eBook)

Ingolf Lamprecht, A. I. Zotin (Herausgeber)

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2019 | 1., Reprint 2019
531 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-084840-3 (ISBN)

Inhalt

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- General Problems -- Some Basic Principles for the Formation of Structure in Nonlinear Systems of Thermodynamic Kind -- Topologically Stable Patterns in Condensed Matter -- New Types of Order and Stochastic Regimes in Nonlinear Media -- Chirality Wave Propagation and the First Evolutionary Catastrophe -- Nonlinear Bioenergetics -- Selection Between Aging Species -- Pattern Formation in Chemical and Biochemical Systems -- Pattern Formation and Wave Propagation in Chemical Systems -- Spatial Ordering Processes in Chemical Reactions -- Evolution of Populations of Biothermodynamic Systems Including Birth and Death-Processes -- Monitoring Oscillating Chemical Reactions: The Rate of Heat Production and the Simultaneous Measurement of Other Physical Signals -- Rate Limiting Steps in Oscillating Plant Glycolysis: Experimental Evidence for Control Sites Additional to Phosphofructokinase -- Dynamic Structures in the Fructose-6-Phosphate/Fructose' 1,6-Bisphosphatase Cycle -- Pattern Formation in Biological Systems -- Morphogenesis of Behaviour and Information Compression in Biological Systems -- Model of Pattern Generation on Plants, Based on the Principles of Minimal Entropy Production -- Structures in Models of Morphogenesis -- Self-Organisation of Biological Morphogenesis: General Approaches and Topo-Geometrical Models -- Topological and Thermodynamic Structures of Morphogenesis -- Fractal Shapes of Cell Membranes and Pattern Formation by Dichotomous Branching Processes -- Autowave Mechanochemical Model for Physarum Shuttle Streaming -- Statistical Geometry of Tissues -- Surface Changes and Shape Formation During Organism Growth -- List of Contributors -- References -- Subject Index -- Backmatter

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.8.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 139 b/w ill.
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
• Schlagworte: Biologisches System • Musterbildung • Thermodynamik
• ISBN-10: 3-11-084840-6 / 3110848406
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-084840-3 / 9783110848403