From actin waves to mechanism and back: how theory aids biological understanding

C Beta, L Edelstein-Keshet, N Gov, A Yochelis - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Actin dynamics in cell motility, division, and phagocytosis is regulated by complex factors
with multiple feedback loops, often leading to emergent dynamic patterns in the form of …

The multicellular nature of filamentous heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria

A Herrero, J Stavans, E Flores - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Cyanobacteria carry out oxygenic photosynthesis, play a key role in the cycling of carbon
and nitrogen in the biosphere, and have had a large impact on the evolution of life and the …

[HTML][HTML] The three way Dirac operator and dynamical Turing and Dirac induced patterns on nodes and links

R Muolo, T Carletti, G Bianconi - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2024 - Elsevier
Topological signals are dynamical variables not only defined on nodes but also on links of a
network that are gaining significant attention in non-linear dynamics and topology and have …

Pattern formation and transition to chaos in a chemotaxis model of acute inflammation

V Giunta, MC Lombardo, M Sammartino - SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical …, 2021 - SIAM
We investigate a reaction-diffusion-chemotaxis system that describes the immune response
during an inflammatory attack. The model is a modification of the system proposed in …

Fronts and waves of actin polymerization in a bistability-based mechanism of circular dorsal ruffles

E Bernitt, HG Döbereiner, NS Gov… - Nature Communications, 2017 - nature.com
During macropinocytosis, cells remodel their morphologies for the uptake of extracellular
matter. This endocytotic mechanism relies on the collapse and closure of precursory …

Turing patterns on discrete topologies: from networks to higher-order structures

R Muolo, L Giambagli, H Nakao, D Fanelli… - Proceedings …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Nature is a blossoming of regular structures, signature of self-organization of the underlying
microscopic interacting agents. Turing theory of pattern formation is one of the most studied …

Interspecific dispersal constraints suppress pattern formation in metacommunities

P Lawton, AK Fahimipour… - Philosophical …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Decisions to disperse from a habitat stand out among organismal behaviours as pivotal
drivers of ecosystem dynamics across scales. Encounters with other species are an …

Robust stochastic Turing patterns in the development of a one-dimensional cyanobacterial organism

F Di Patti, L Lavacchi, R Arbel-Goren… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Under nitrogen deprivation, the one-dimensional cyanobacterial organism Anabaena sp.
PCC 7120 develops patterns of single, nitrogen-fixing cells separated by nearly regular …

Stability of spatial patterns in a diffusive oxygen–plankton model with time lag effect

A Gökçe, S Yazar, Y Sekerci - Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 2022 - Elsevier
Although marine ecosystem is a highly complex phenomenon with many non-linearly
interacting species, dissolved oxygen and plankton among these have perhaps the most …

Pattern formation in a system involving prey–predation, competition and commensalism

S Ghorai, S Poria - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2017 - Springer
In this paper, pattern forming instabilities in a three species reaction–diffusion system
involving prey–predation, competition and commensalism are explored. The system consists …