Biological Motion: Proceedings of a Workshop Held in Königswinter, Germany, March 16-19, 1989

ISBN-13: 9783540535201 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 607 str.

Wolfgang Alt; Gerhard Hoffmann

Opis

Designed as a practical reference for bio-mathematicians and biologists in their attempts to quantify the motions of cells and organisms, this volume discusses movement paths and searching behaviour, cellular motion and shape changing, microtubuli and cilia motion, and kinesis and/or taxis.

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Motion of Cell or Body Parts.- Quantifying Cellular Shape Using Moment Invariants.- Analysis of Leucocyte Shape Changes.- Images of Cells Changing Shape: Pseudopods, Skeletons and Motile Behaviour.- Continuity of Movement and Preservation of Architecture during Cell Locomotion.- Periodic Contraction Waves in Cytoplasmic Extracts.- Motion Analysis of Intracellular Objects: Trajectories with and without Visible Tracks.- Centrin-Mediated Cell Motility in Eukariotic Cells.- Descriptive and Mechanistic Models of Flagellar Motility.- Discrete Nature of Flagellar Bending Detected by Digital Image Analysis.- An Approach to Quantitative Analysis and Modelling of Three-Dimensional Ciliary Motion.- Bioelectric Control of the Ciliary Cycle.- Ca-Mg Control of Ciliary Motion: A Quantitative Model Study.- Modelling the Control of Walking in Insects.- Coordination of Contralateral Legs in Walking Crayfish.- Flight Manoeuvres of Locusts.- How a Fish’s Brain May Move a Fish’s Body.- Locomotion of Single Organisms.- Correlation Analysis of Two-Dimensional Locomotion Paths.- Paths of Carabid Beetles Walking in the Absence of Orienting Stimuli and the Time Structure of their Motor Output.- Microzooplankton Feeding Behavior and the Levy Walk.- Adaptation and Orientation in Animals’ Movements: Random Walk, Kinesis, Taxis and Path-Integration.- The Site Independent Information that an Isopod Uses for Homing.- A Simulation Model of Foraging Excursions in Intertidal Chitons.- How to Describe the Search of a Predator for Patchily Distributed Prey?.- Tracking of Flagellates by Image Analysis.- Helical Orientation — A Novel Mechanism for the Orientation of Microorganisms.- Motile Behaviour and Determination of the Magnetic Moment of Magnetic Bacteria in Rotating Magnetic Fields.- Chemokinesis, Chemotaxis and Galvanotaxis Dose-Response Curves and Signal Chains.- Models of Chemical Gradient Sensing by Cells.- Endothelial Cell Chemotaxis in Angiogenesis.- A Model for Trail Following in Ants: Individual and Collective Behaviour.- Definition and Measurement of Cell Migration Coefficients.- Signals for Chemotaxis and Chemokinesis in Cells of Dictyostelium Discoideum.- Distinction Between Kinesis and Taxis in Terms of System Theory.- Collective Motion.- Functional Self-Organisation Illustrated by Inter-Nest Traffic in Ants: The Case of the Argentine Ant.- Simulations of the Gliding Behavior and Aggregation of Myxobacteria.- A One Dimensional Model for the Swarming Behavior of Myxobacteria.- From Cell to Tissue; Contact Mediated Orientation Selection in a Population.- The Movement of Fish Schools: A Simulation Model.