Pattern Formation

Joseph Frankel, Oxford University Press, pp. 314, 1989

with original illustrations by Jane A. Otto

Contents

1. Spatial Order: an Analytical Framework .............................. 3

2 . Ciliate Organization ........................................................... 19

3. The Experimental Cast ........................................................ 42

4. Structural Inheritance ........................................................ 69

5. Segmental Subdivision ........................................................ 94

6. Gradients and Intracellular Diversification .........................116

7. The Formation of an Organelle Complex: The Oral Apparatus ....... 138

8. Reversals of Asymmetry .................................................. 162

9. Origins of Reversals of Asymmetry ................................... 186

10. A Cylindrical-Coordinate Model for Pattern Formation in Ciliates ........ 209

11. Can Ciliates Help us to Find "Nontrivial Universals"? ......... 238

References ............................................................................. 263

Index ..................................................................................... 299