Thermodynamics and Pattern Formation in Biology

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- General Problems -- Some Basic Principles for the Formation of Structure in Nonlinear Systems of Thermodynamic Kind / Busse, H.-G. -- Topologically Stable Patterns in Condensed Matter / Mineev, V. P. / Volovik, G. E. -- New Types of Order and Stochastic Regimes in Nonlinear Media / Akhromeyeva, T. S. / Kurdjumov, S. P. / Malinetskii, G. G. / Potapov, A. B. / Samarskii, A. A. -- Chirality Wave Propagation and the First Evolutionary Catastrophe / Zeldovich, Ya. B. / Mikhailov, A. S. -- Nonlinear Bioenergetics / Davydov, A. S. -- Selection Between Aging Species / Ebeling, W. / Engel, A. / Mazenko, V. G. -- Pattern Formation in Chemical and Biochemical Systems -- Pattern Formation and Wave Propagation in Chemical Systems / Epstein, I. R. -- Spatial Ordering Processes in Chemical Reactions / Müller, S. C. -- Evolution of Populations of Biothermodynamic Systems Including Birth and Death-Processes / Keller, J. U. -- Monitoring Oscillating Chemical Reactions: The Rate of Heat Production and the Simultaneous Measurement of Other Physical Signals / Plesser, Th. / Lamprecht, I. -- Rate Limiting Steps in Oscillating Plant Glycolysis: Experimental Evidence for Control Sites Additional to Phosphofructokinase / Kreuzberg, K. / Betz, A. -- Dynamic Structures in the Fructose-6-Phosphate/Fructose' 1,6-Bisphosphatase Cycle / Schellenberger, W. / Kretschmer, M. / Eschrich, K. / Hofmann, E. -- Pattern Formation in Biological Systems -- Morphogenesis of Behaviour and Information Compression in Biological Systems / Haken, H. -- Model of Pattern Generation on Plants, Based on the Principles of Minimal Entropy Production / Jean, R. V. -- Structures in Models of Morphogenesis / Kerner, B. S. / Krinskii, V. I. / Osipov, V. V. -- Self-Organisation of Biological Morphogenesis: General Approaches and Topo-Geometrical Models / Beloussov, L. V. / Lakirev, A. V. -- Topological and Thermodynamic Structures of Morphogenesis / Presnov, E. V. / Malyghin, S. N. / Isaeva, V. V. -- Fractal Shapes of Cell Membranes and Pattern Formation by Dichotomous Branching Processes / Nonnenmacher, T. F. -- Autowave Mechanochemical Model for Physarum Shuttle Streaming / Romanovskii, Yu. M. / Teplov, V. A. -- Statistical Geometry of Tissues / Rivier, N. -- Surface Changes and Shape Formation During Organism Growth / Timchenko, G. V. / Prokofiev, E. A. / Zotin, A. I. -- List of Contributors -- References -- Subject Index -- Backmatter