Invasibility of nectarless flowers in plant-pollinator systems.

abstract：:In this paper, we present computational techniques to investigate the effect of surface geometry on biological pattern formation. In particular, we study two-component, nonlinear reaction-diffusion (RD) systems on arbitrary surfaces. We build on standard techniques for linear and nonlinear analysis of RD systems and e...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Dhillon DS,Milinkovitch MC,Zwicker M

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dynamic model for cell differentiation, where cells with internal chemical reaction dynamics interact with each other and replicate was studied. It led to spontaneous differentiation of cells and determination, as discussed in the isologous diversification. The following features of the differentiation were obtained...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Furusawa C,Kaneko K

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge about large-scale and long-term dynamics of (natural) populations is required to assess the efficiency of control strategies, the potential for long-term persistence, and the adaptability to global changes such as habitat fragmentation and global warming. For most natural populations, such as pest population...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Soubeyrand S,Neuvonen S,Penttinen A

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical and empirical arguments are used to support the growth kinetics of disseminated tumors. Employing viable hypotheses, it is established that Gompertzian growth of disseminated cancer cells can be derived from a number of theoretical considerations. Empirical methods are used to validate and confirm the theo...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Afenya EK,Calderón CP

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic spines grow as a consequence of the formation of F-actin filaments at the spine head. The dynamics of F-actin in the spine head upon excitation of N-methy-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors has recently been investigated experimentally, but there is no quantitative account of how these dynamic changes occur upon ac...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Bennett MR,Farnell L,Gibson WG

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely believed that the slowest dispersal strategy is selected in the evolutional if the environment is temporally invariant but spatially heterogeneous. Authors claim in this paper that this belief is true only if random dispersals with constant motility are considered. However, if a dispersal strategy with fi...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Kim YJ,Kwon O,Li F

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent experimental evidence suggests that vasculogenesis may play an important role in tumour vascularisation. While angiogenesis involves the proliferation and migration of endothelial cells (ECs) in pre-existing vessels, vasculogenesis involves the mobilisation of bone-marrow-derived endothelial progenitor cells (E...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Stamper IJ,Byrne HM,Owen MR,Maini PK

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop the mathematical machinery for the construction of an algebraic-combinatorial model using Petri nets to construct an oriented matroid representation of biochemical pathways. For demonstration purposes, we use a model metabolic pathway example from the literature to derive a general biochemical reaction netw...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Oliveira JS,Bailey CG,Jones-Oliveira JB,Dixon DA

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We exhibit a stochastic discrete time model that produces the Eigen model (Naturwissenschaften 58:465-523, 1971) in the deterministic and continuous time limits. The model is based on the competition among individuals differing in terms of fecundity but with the same viability. We explicitly write down the Markov matr...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Musso F

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study a recently discovered class of models for plateau bursting, inspired by models for endocrine pituitary cells. In contrast to classical models for fold-homoclinic (square-wave) bursting, the spikes of the active phase are not supported by limit cycles of the frozen fast subsystem, but are transient oscillation...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Stern JV,Osinga HM,LeBeau A,Sherman A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The comprehension of activities and functions of complex brain structures requires, among other things, information on simultaneous activities in several regions. Results reported in the literature using multi(micro/macro)electrode recordings or imaging techniques provide incomplete information due either to the small...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Ventriglia F

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological invasion is an important area of research in mathematical biology and more so if it concerns species which are vectors for diseases threatening the public health of large populations. That is certainly the case for Aedes aegypti and the dengue epidemics in South America. Without the prospect of an effective...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Takahashi LT,Maidana NA,Ferreira WC Jr,Pulino P,Yang HM

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cycles in biological populations have been shown to arise from enemy-victim systems, delayed density dependence, and maternal effects. In an initial effort to model the year-to-year dynamics of natural populations of entomopathogenic nematodes and their insect hosts, we find that a simple, nonlinear, mechanistic model...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Dugaw CJ,Hastings A,Preisser EL,Strong DR

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two algorithms for the efficient identification of segment neighborhoods are presented. A segment neighborhood is a set of contiguous residues that share common features. Two procedures are developed to efficiently find estimates for the parameters of the model that describe these features and for the residues that de...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Auger IE,Lawrence CE

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonlinear response of the simplest irreversible Michaelis-Menten enzyme is considered. In the context of metabolic networks, i.e. in vivo, the enzyme is subject to sustained, frequently time-dependent, input fluxes that keep the system out of equilibrium. The connection between the fluxes and the response is inves...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Torralba AS,Rodríguez Y

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While cholera has been a recognized disease for two centuries, there is no strategy for its effective control. We formulate a mathematical model to include essential components such as a hyperinfectious, short-lived bacterial state, a separate class for mild human infections, and waning disease immunity. A new result ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Miller Neilan RL,Schaefer E,Gaff H,Fister KR,Lenhart S

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface protein B7-H1, also called PD-L1 and CD274, is found on carcinomas of the lung, ovary, colon, and melanomas but not on most normal tissues. B7-H1 has been experimentally determined to be an antiapoptotic receptor on cancer cells, where B7-H1-positive cancer cells have been shown to be immune resistant, and...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Galante A,Tamada K,Levy D

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We consider a kinetic law of mass action model for Fibroblast Growth Factor (FGF) signaling, focusing on the induction of the RAS-MAP kinase pathway via GRB2 binding. Our biologically simple model suffers a combinatorial explosion in the number of differential equations required to simulate the system. In addition to ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Gaffney EA,Heath JK,Kwiatkowska MZ

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine Babesiosis (BB) is a tick borne parasitic disease with worldwide over 1.3 billion bovines at potential risk of being infected. The disease, also called tick fever, causes significant mortality from infection by the protozoa upon exposure to infected ticks. An important factor in the spread of the disease is the...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Friedman A,Yakubu AA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With increasing fishing pressures having brought several stocks to the brink of collapse, there is a need for developing efficient harvesting methods that account for factors beyond merely yield or profit. We consider the dynamics and management of a stage-structured fish stock. Our work is based on a consumer-resourc...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Meng X,Lundström NL,Bodin M,Brännström Å

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the isothermal semi-logarithmic survival curves of heat inactivated microbial cells or spores are known to be linear it is possible to calculate their survival parameters from curves obtained under nonisothermal conditions, provided that the temperature history ('profile') satisfies certain simple mathematical re...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Peleg M,Normand MD,Campanella OH

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An algorithm for computing the linear noise approximation (LNA) of the reaction-diffusion master equation (RDME) is developed and tested. The RDME is often used as a model for biochemical reaction networks. The LNA is derived for a general discretization of the spatial domain of the problem. If M is the number of chem...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Lötstedt P

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we develop and extend a previous model of cell deformations, initially proposed to describe the dynamical behaviour of round-shaped cells such as keratinocytes or leukocytes, in order to take into account cell pseudopodial dynamics with large amplitude membrane deformations such as those observed in fibr...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Stéphanou A,Chaplain MA,Tracqui P

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using optimal control theory as the basic theoretical tool, we investigate the efficacy of different antibiotic treatment protocols in the most exacting of circumstances, described as follows. Viewing a continuous culture device as a proxy for a much more complex host organism, we first inoculate the device with a sin...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Peña-Miller R,Lähnemann D,Schulenburg H,Ackermann M,Beardmore R

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates fluid flow and elastic deformation in tissues that are drained by the primary lymphatic system. A model is formulated based on the Rossi hypothesis that states that the primary lymphatic valves, which are formed by overlapping endothelial cells around the circumferential lining of lymphatic cap...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Heppell C,Roose T,Richardson G

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many dynamic programming algorithms consist of a 'forward pass' computation to optimize a cost function, followed by a 'choice recovery' computation to construct a configuration that optimizes the cost function. 'Checkpointing' is a method to perform choice recovery using limited storage. During a forward pass, checkp...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Bax E

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we consider a game-theoretic model of multilevel selection in which individuals compete based on their payoff and groups also compete based on the average payoff of group members. Our focus is on multilevel social dilemmas: games in which individuals are best off cheating, while groups of individuals do best whe...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Cooney DB

更新日期：2020-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Moment closure methods are widely used to analyze mathematical models. They are specifically geared toward derivation of approximations of moments of stochastic models, and of similar quantities in other models. The methods possess several weaknesses: Conditions for validity of the approximations are not known, magnit...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Nåsell I

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell migration plays an important role in physiology and pathophysiology. It was observed in the experiments that cells, such as fibroblast, leukocytes, and cancer cells, exhibit a wide variety of migratory behaviors, such as persistent random walk, contact inhibition of locomotion, and ordered behaviors. To identify ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Hassan AR,Biel T,Umulis DM,Kim T

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular motors such as kinesin and dynein are responsible for transporting material along microtubule networks in cells. In many contexts, motor dynamics can be modelled by a system of reaction-advection-diffusion partial differential equations (PDEs). Recently, quasi-steady-state (QSS) methods have been applied to ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Zmurchok C,Small T,Ward MJ,Edelstein-Keshet L

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00