Comparable ecological dynamics underlie early cancer invasion and species dispersal, involving self-organizing processes

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2008.09.011MaRDI QIDQ1798646zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Diana E. Marco, S. A. Cannas, M. A. Montemurro, Bo Hu, Shi-Yuan Cheng

Publication date 23 October 2018

Published in Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.0443, http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc2873664

zbMATH Keywords

cancer and species invasioncomplex systemslong-range dispersalpower-law scalingself-organization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cell movement (chemotaxis, etc.) (92C17) Ecology (92D40)

Abstract: Occupancy of new habitats through dispersion is a central process in nature. In particular, long range dispersal is involved in the spread of species and epidemics, although it has not been previously related with cancer invasion, a process that involves spread to new tissues. We show that the early spread of cancer cells is similar to the species individuals spread and that both processes are represented by a common spatio-temporal signature, characterized by a particular fractal geometry of the boundaries of patches generated, and a power law-scaled, disrupted patch size distribution. We show that both properties are a direct result of long-distance dispersal, and that they reflect homologous ecological processes of population self-organization. Our results are significant for processes involving long-range dispersal like biological invasions, epidemics and cancer metastasis.

Recommendations

• Spatial stochastic models of cancer: fitness, migration, invasion
• Multi-parametric evolution of conditions leading to cancer invasion in biological systems
• Spatial vs. non-spatial eco-evolutionary dynamics in a tumor growth model
• Spatial invasion dynamics on random and unstructured meshes: implications for heterogeneous tumor populations
• Modelling of cancer growth, evolution and invasion: bridging scales and models
• The ecology and evolutionary biology of cancer: a review of mathematical models of necrosis and tumor cell diversity
• Application of ecological and mathematical theory to cancer: new challenges
• Mix and match: phenotypic coexistence as a key facilitator of cancer invasion
• Discrete and continuum models for the evolutionary and spatial dynamics of cancer: a very short introduction through two case studies
• Dynamics and bifurcations in a simple quasispecies model of tumorigenesis

Cites work

• Analysis of tracer particle migration in inhomogeneous turbulence
• Effects of dispersal mechanisms on spatio-temporal development of epidemics
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3794378 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 798680 (Why is no real title available?)
• Long range dispersal and spatial pattern formation in biological invasions
• Modelling biological invasions: Species traits, species interactions, and habitat heterogeneity

Cited in

(1)

• Patchy patterns due to group dispersal

This page was built for publication: Comparable ecological dynamics underlie early cancer invasion and species dispersal, involving self-organizing processes

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1798646)