Modelling Protocells The Emergent Synchronization of Reproduction and Molecular Replication /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Serra, Roberto (Συγγραφέας), Villani, Marco (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Σειρά: Understanding Complex Systems,
• Θέματα: Physics.; Biotechnology.; Evolutionary biology.; System theory.; Complex Systems.; Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics.; Evolutionary Biology.; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.

The monograph discusses models of synthetic protocells, which are cell-like structures obtained from non-living matter endowed with some rudimentary kind of metabolism and genetics, but much simpler than biological cells. They should grow and proliferate, generating offsprings that resemble in some...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Foreword
• Introduction
• About protocells
• Why modelling protocells
• Collective self-replication
• Self-replication in a vesicle
• Self-replication in a reproducing protocell
• Generic properties of dynamical models of protocells
• Introduction. -Generic properties of biological systems: data
• Generic properties of biological systems: concepts
• What shall we model
• Dynamical models of protocells and synchronization
• Simplified surface-reaction models of protocells
• Synchronization in surface reaction models
• Several linearly interacting replicators
• Several interacting replicators with nonlinear interactions
• Internal reaction models
• Models of self-replication
• Introduction
• Autocatalytic sets
• The properties of some replication models
• Products and substrates
• Reflexive autocatalytic food-generated (raf) sets
• A stochastic model of growing and dividing protocells
• Semipermeable protocells
• The role of active membranes
• The effects of passive membranes
• Coupled dynamics of rafs and protocells
• Maintaining novelties.-A comment on evolvable populations of protocells
• Conclusions, open questions and perspectives
• Introduction
• The hypothesis of spontaneous fission and synchronization
• The formation of self-sustaining autocatalytic cycles
• The role of membranes
• A virtual laboratory.