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Journal of Applied Nonlinear Dynamics
Miguel A. F. Sanjuan (editor), Albert C.J. Luo (editor)
Miguel A. F. Sanjuan (editor)

Department of Physics, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28933 Mostoles, Madrid, Spain

Email: miguel.sanjuan@urjc.es

Albert C.J. Luo (editor)

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Southern Illinois University Ed-wardsville, IL 62026-1805, USA

Fax: +1 618 650 2555 Email: aluo@siue.edu

Reaction-diffusion Dynamics and Biological Pattern Formation

Journal of Applied Nonlinear Dynamics 6(4) (2017) 547--564 | DOI:10.5890/JAND.2017.12.009

Kishore Dutta

Department of Physics, Handique Girls’ College, Guwahati, India

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Abstract

The spontaneous formation of a wide variety of natural patterns with different shapes and symmetries in many physical and biological systems is one of the deep mysteries in science. This article describes the physical principles underlying the formation of various intriguing spatio-temporal patterns in Nature with special emphasis on some biological structures. We discuss how the spontaneous symmetry breaking due to diffusion driven instability in the reaction dynamics lead to the emergence of such complicated natural patterns. The mechanism of the formation of various animal coat patterns is explained via the Turing-type reaction-diffusion models.

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