Reprint

Symmetry Breaking in Cells and Tissues

Edited by
March 2021
322 pages
  • ISBN978-3-0365-0338-7 (Hardback)
  • ISBN978-3-0365-0339-4 (PDF)

This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Symmetry Breaking in Cells and Tissues that was published in

Biology & Life Sciences
Medicine & Pharmacology
Summary
“Symmetry Breaking in Cells and Tissues” presents a collection of seventeen reviews, opinions and original research papers contributed by theoreticians, physicists and mathematicians, as well as experimental biologists, united by a common interest in biological pattern formation and morphogenesis. The contributors discuss diverse manifestations of symmetry breaking in biology and showcase recent developments in experimental and theoretical approaches to biological morphogenesis and pattern formation on multiple scales.
Format
  • Hardback
License
© by the authors
Keywords
actin waves; curved proteins; dynamic instability; podosomes; diffusion; cell polarity; Cdc42; stress; cellular memory; phase separation; prions; apoptotic extrusion; oncogenic extrusion; contractility; actomyosin; bottom-up synthetic biology; motor proteins; pattern formation; self-organization; cell motility; signal transduction; actin dynamics; intracellular waves; polarization; direction sensing; symmetry-breaking; biphasic responses; reaction-diffusion; membrane and cortical tension; cell fusion; cortexillin; cytokinesis; Dictyostelium; myosin; symmetry breaking; cytoplasmic flow; phase-space analysis; pattern formation; nonlinear waves; actin polymerization; bifurcation theory; mass conservation; spatial localization; pattern formation; activator–inhibitor models; symmetry breaking; pattern formation; reaction-diffusion; developmental transitions; cell polarization; mathematical model; fission yeast; reaction–diffusion model; small GTPases; Cdc42 oscillations; pseudopod; Ras activation; cytoskeleton; Dictyostelium; chemotaxis; neutrophils; pattern formation; natural variation; modelling; symmetry breaking; activator-substrate mechanism; mass-conserved models; cell polarity; pattern formation; small GTPases; intracellular polarization; partial differential equations; sensitivity analysis; Cdc42; GTPase activating protein (GAP); cell polarity; fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe; CRY2-CIBN; optogenetics; clustering; positive feedback; pattern formation; network evolution; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; polarity; modularity; neutrality; symmetry breaking; n/a