Beschreibung:
Antonio Siber, Institute of Physics, Zagreb, Croatia
This book explores biological tissue patterns, such as the checkerboard pattern of light and dark cells in the Japanese quail oviduct, and interprets these patterns using models based, for example, on the forces that make raindrops spherical, enabling readers to understand why these patterns appear.
Introduction. Cells as physical objects. Inplane structure of singlelayer tissues. Shape of epithelia. Morphogenesis. Bulk tissues. Afterthoughts.