Published in association with the Society for Developmental Biology.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Models of biological pattern formation : from elementary steps to the organization of embryonic axes / Hans Meinhardt -- Robustness of embryonic spatial patterning in Drosophila melanogaster / David Umulis, Michael B. O'Connor, and Hans G. Othmer -- Integrating morphogenesis with underlying mechanics and cell biology / Lance A. Davidson -- The mechanisms underlying primitive streak formation in the chick embryo / Manli Chuai and Cornelis J. Weijer -- Grid-free models of multicellular systems, with an application to large-scale vortices accompanying primitive streak formation / Timothy J. Newman -- Mathematical models for somite formation / Ruth E. Baker, Santiago Schnell, and Philip K. Maini -- Coordinated action of N-CAM, N-cahedrin, EphA4, end ephrinB2 translates genetic prepatterns into structure during somitogenesis in chick / James A. Glazier ... [et al.] -- Branched organs : mechanics of morphogenesis by multiple mechanisms / Sharon R. Lubkin -- Multicellular sprouting during vasculogenesis / Andras Czirok ... [et al.] -- Modeling lung branching morphogenesis / Takashi Miura -- Multiscale models for vertebrate limb development / Stuart A. Newman ... [et al.] -- Tooth morphogenesis in vivo, in vitro, and in silico / Isaac Salazar-Ciudad -- Delaunay-object-dynamics : cell mechanics with a 3D kinetic and dynamic weighted Delaunay-triangulation / Michael Meyer-Hermann -- Cellular automata as microscopic models of cell migration in heterogeneous environments / Haralambos Hatzikirou and Andreas Deutsch -- Multiscale modeling of biological pattern formation / Ramon Grima -- Relating biophysical properties across scales / Elijah Flenner ... [et al.] -- Complex multicellular systems and immune competition : new paradigms looking for a mathematical theory / Nicola Bellomo and Guido Forni