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One possible mechanism to explain how animals got their coat patterns was proposed by Alan Turing. He assumed that two kinds of morphogens diffuse on a surface and interact with each other, generating a reaction-diffusion mechanism. We…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-16 Michäel Dougoud , Christian Mazza , Beat Schwaller , Laszlo Pecze

The modelling of linear and nonlinear reaction-subdiffusion processes is more subtle than normal diffusion and causes different phenomena. The resulting equations feature a spatial Laplacian with a temporal memory term through a time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Jichen Yang , Jens D. M. Rademacher

Reaction diffusion systems with Turing instability and mass conservation are studied. In such systems, abrupt decays of stripes follow quasi-stationary states in sequence. At steady state, the distance between stripes is much longer than…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Shuji Ishihara , Mikiya Otsuji , Atsushi Mochizuki

The study of pattern emergence together with exploration of the exemplar Turing model is enjoying a renaissance both from theoretical and experimental perspective. Here, we implement a stability analysis of spatially dependent reaction…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-11-06 Michal Kozák , Eamonn A Gaffney , Václav Klika

We show that the Turing patterns in reaction systems with subdiffusion can be replicated in an effective system with Markovian cross-diffusion. The effective system has the same Turing instability as the original system, and the same…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-01-29 Joseph W. Baron , Tobias Galla

The problem of pattern formation in a generic two species reaction--diffusion model is studied, under the hypothesis that only one species can diffuse. For such a system, the classical Turing instability cannot take place. At variance, by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-16 Laura Cantini , Claudia Cianci , Duccio Fanelli , Emma Massi , Luigi Barletti

Including pairwise interactions between the predictors of a regression model can produce better predicting models. However, to fit such interaction models on typical data sets in biology and other fields can often require solving enormous…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-14 Guo Yu , Jacob Bien , Ryan Tibshirani

Patterns in reaction-diffusion systems often contain two spatial scales; a long scale determined by a typical wavelength or domain size, and a short scale pertaining to front structures separating different domains. Such patterns naturally…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-22 Aric Hagberg , Ehud Meron

There is a growing interest, inspired by advances in technology, in the low temperature physics of thin films. These quasi-2D systems show a wide range of ordering effects including formation of striped states, reorientation transitions,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alessandro Giuliani , Joel L. Lebowitz , Elliott H. Lieb

With the development of network science, Turing pattern has been proven to be formed in discrete media such as complex networks, opening up the possibility of exploring it as a generation mechanism in the context of biology, chemistry, and…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-05 Yong Ye , Jiaying Zhou

The diffusion-driven Turing instability is a potential mechanism for spatial pattern formation in numerous biological and chemical systems. However, engineering these patterns and demonstrating that they are produced by this mechanism is…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Antonio Matas-Gil , Robert G. Endres

Bacteria possess diverse mechanisms to regulate their motility in response to environmental and physiological signals, enabling them to navigate complex habitats and adapt their behavior. Among these mechanisms, interspecies recognition…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-01 Mattia Mattei , David Soriano Paños , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Alex Arenas

We analyze diffusion-driven (Turing) instability of a reaction-diffusion system. The innovation is that we replace the traditional Laplacian diffusion operator with a combination of the fourth order bi-Laplacian operator and the second…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Jooyeon Chung

Intracellular protein patterns govern essential cellular functions by dynamically redistributing proteins between membrane-bound and cytosolic states, conserving their total numbers. This review presents a theoretical framework for…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Erwin Frey , Henrik Weyer

This paper is concerned with stochastic reaction-diffusion kinetics governed by the reaction-diffusion master equation. Specifically, the primary goal of this paper is to provide a mechanistic basis of Turing pattern formation that is…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-04-23 Yutaka Hori , Shinji Hara

Reaction-diffusion systems with time-delay defined on complex networks have been studied in the framework of the emergence of Turing instabilities. The use of the Lambert W-function allowed us get explicit analytic conditions for the onset…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-03 Julien Petit , Malbor Asllani , Duccio Fanelli , Ben Lauwens , Timoteo Carletti

In networked systems, the interplay between the dynamics of individual subsystems and their network interactions has been found to generate multistability in various contexts. Despite its ubiquity, the specific mechanisms and ingredients…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Kalel L. Rossi , Everton S. Medeiros , Peter Ashwin , Ulrike Feudel

The advances in understanding complex networks have generated increasing interest in dynamical processes occurring on them. Pattern formation in activator-inhibitor systems has been studied in networks, revealing differences from the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-09 Nikos E. Kouvaris , Shigefumi Hata , Albert Díaz-Guilera

Gene expression time delays, modelling the complex biological processes of gene transcription and translation, have been shown to play an important role in cellular dynamics. Time delays, motivated by the gene expression process, can also…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-24 Alec Sargood

Long-range interactions are ubiquitous in nature, where they are mediated by diffusive fields at the cellular scale or by visual cues for groups of animals. Short-range forces, which are paradigmatic in physics, can thus often be neglected…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-15 Quan Manh Nguyen , Alberto Dinelli , Gianmarco Spera , Julien Tailleur