Topics in Mathematical Biology

• Main Author: Hadeler, Karl Peter (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Lecture Notes on Mathematical Modelling in the Life Sciences,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Biomathematics.; Mathematical and Computational Biology.

This book analyzes the impact of quiescent phases on biological models. Quiescence arises, for example, when moving individuals stop moving, hunting predators take a rest, infected individuals are isolated, or cells enter the quiescent compartment of the cell cycle. In the first chapter of Topics in...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1.Coupling and quiescence
• 2.Delay and age
• 3.Lotka-Volterra and replicator systems
• 4.Ecology
• 5.Homogeneous systems
• 6.Epidemic models
• 7.Coupled movements
• 8.Traveling fronts
• Index.