Cellular Patterns

Summary

This book explores biological tissue patterns, such as the checkerboard pattern of light and dark cells in the Japanese quail oviduct, and interprets these patterns using models based, for example, on the forces that make raindrops spherical, enabling readers to understand why these patterns appear.

Product details

• Authors: Antonio Siber, Antonio Ziherl Siber, Primoz Ziherl
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.12.2017
• EAN: 9781482259612
• ISBN: 978-1-4822-5961-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Pharmacy; SCIENCE / Physics / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Cell Biology, MEDICAL / Biotechnology, biotechnology, Physics, Cellular biology (cytology), Biophysics, Biomedical engineering, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences