A theory of biological pattern formation
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Gierer, A. ;Meinhardt, H.
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Article
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1972
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Springer-Verlag
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One of the elementary processes in morphogenesis is the formation of a spatial pattern of tissue structures, starting from almost homogeneous tissue. It will be shown that relatively simple molecular mechanisms based on auto-and cross catalysis can account for a primary pattern of morphogens to dete