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