Research report 2006 - Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics

Biological Patterning

Authors
Schlake, Thomas
Departments
Summary
How does the complexity and variability of life develop from simple embryonic structures? Periodic body structures as well as characteristic colour patterns on the body surface clearly stress the existence of biological patterning processes. Although an astonishingly simple mathematical model could explain pattern formation, experimental proof was still missing. A combined experimental and computer modelling approach now provided evidence for the biological correctness of the hypothesised mechanism.

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