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Formation of biological patterns by pulsed signals


Alan Turing first described how regular patterns found in living things, such as the stripes of zebras, appear.A collaborative study between IFISC and Princeton University proposes an alternative mechanism to explain this pattern formation. Understanding how regular shapes (patterns) are generated in nature is a key question, as they have a major influence on the functionality, resilience and properties of organisms and their aggregations. Structures as diverse as the patterns on an insect s...



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