Fungal tip growth arising through a codimension-1 global bifurcation

DOI10.1142/S0218127420501072zbMATH Open1448.34100arXiv1909.05486MaRDI QIDQ5116631FDOQ5116631

Alef Sterk, Thomas de Jong, Henk Broer

Publication date: 18 August 2020

Published in: International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos in Applied Sciences and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Tip growth is a growth stage which occurs in fungal cells. During tip growth, the cell exhibits continuous extreme lengthwise growth while its shape remains qualitatively the same. A model for single celled fungal tip growth is given by the Ballistic Ageing Thin viscous Sheet (BATS) model, which consists of a 5-dimensional system of first order differential equations. The solutions of the BATS model that correspond to fungal tip growth arise through a codimension-1 global bifurcation in a 2-parameter family of solutions. In this paper we derive a toy model from the BATS model. The toy model is given by 2-dimensional system of first order differential equations which depend on a single parameter. The main achievement of this paper is a proof that the toy model exhibits an analogue of the codimension-1 global bifurcation in the BATS model. An important ingredient of the proof is a topological method which enables the identification of the bifurcation points. Finally, we discuss how the proof may be generalized to the BATS model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05486

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zbMATH Keywords

ordinary differential equationbifurcationdynamical systemtoy modelfungal tip growth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Qualitative investigation and simulation of ordinary differential equation models (34C60) Transformation and reduction of ordinary differential equations and systems, normal forms (34C20) Bifurcation theory for ordinary differential equations (34C23) Plant biology (92C80)

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