Bifurcations in Turing systems of the second kind may explain blastula cleavage plane orientation

DOI10.1007/BF00276385MaRDI QIDQ1821047zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Axel Hunding

Publication date 1987

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00276385

zbMATH Keywords

bifurcationsbiochemical reaction-diffusion systemsBipolarity in mitosisblastulascleavage planescytokinesisdissipative structuresemergence of Turing structuresmitotic spindlesnonlinear parabolic partial differential equationsprepatternsselection rulesSpontaneous pattern formationTuring equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probabilistic models, generic numerical methods in probability and statistics (65C20) Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology (92-08) General biology and biomathematics (92B05) Physiological, cellular and medical topics (92Cxx)

Review text

Spontaneous pattern formation (emergence of Turing structures) may take place in biological systems as primary and secondary bifurcations to nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations describing biochemical reaction-diffusion systems. Bipolarity in mitosis and cleavage planes in cytokinesis may be related to this formation of prepatterns. Cleavage planes in early blastulas have an apparently well controlled spatial relationship to the polarity known as the animal-vegetal (A-V) axis: the mitotic spindles form perpendicular to this axis in the first two division stages, with cleavage planes going strictly through the A-V poles. The third-stage spindles are parallel to the A-V axis, and cleavage is roughly in the equatorial plane, thus separating the A-V poles. The reasons for these phenomena are poorly understood with current mitosis/cytokinesis models based on intrinsic spindle properties. It is shown here by numerical simulation that a simple modification to the usual Turing equations yields selection rules which lead directly to these orientations of the prepatterns, without any further ad hoc assumptions. These results strongly support the prepattern model for mitosis and cytokinesis and the viewpoint that prepatterns play a fundamental role in nature.

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