Research on how bacteria adapt to changing environments underlies the contemporary
biological understanding of signal transduction (ST), and ST provides the foundation of the …

The remarkable collective action of organisms such as swarming ants, schooling fish and
flocking birds has long captivated the attention of artists, naturalists, philosophers and …

Over the past thirty years, a new systemic conception of life has emerged at the forefront of
science. New emphasis has been given to complexity, networks, and patterns of …

Addressing the emergence of life from a systems biology perspective, this new edition has
undergone extensive revision, reflecting changes in scientific understanding and evolution …

Dense suspensions of swimming bacteria are known to exhibit collective behaviour arising
from the interplay of steric and hydrodynamic interactions. Unconfined suspensions exhibit …

The organization of cells, emerging from cell–cell interactions, can give rise to collective
properties. These properties are adaptive when together cells can face environmental …

Chemical signals are omnipresent in sexual communication in the vast majority of living
organisms. The traditional paradigm was that their main purpose in sexual behaviour was to …

This ambitious book considers social scientific topics such as identity, community, sexual
difference, self, and ecology from a microbial perspective. Harnessing research and …

An accessible and multidisciplinaryintroduction to cellular automata As the applicability of
cellular automata broadens and technology advances, there is a need for a concise, yet …

When plasmodia of the true slime mold Physarum were exposed to unfavorable conditions
presented as three consecutive pulses at constant intervals, they reduced their locomotive …