Morphogen pattern formation and development in growth

✍ Scribed by M. Marek; M. Kubíček

• Book ID: 104272383
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 622 KB
• Volume: 43
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1522-9602
• DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8240(81)80015-8

✦ Synopsis

The dependence of the spatial concentration profiles of morphogens on a characteristic dimension is obtained by continuation techniques for Gierer and Meinhardt's activatorinhibitor model of morphogenesis. The study of the behaviour of the system during growth, where the linear and exponential increase of the characteristic dimension is considered, revealed that more complex patterns of morphogen spatial concentrations appear regularly in a reproducible way.