The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis

"The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" is an article that the English mathematician Alan Turing wrote in 1952.

For example, it has been postulated that the protein VEGFC can form Turing patterns to govern the formation of lymphatic vessels in the zebrafish embryo.

Patterns such as fronts, spirals, targets, hexagons, stripes and dissipative solitons are found in various types of reaction-diffusion systems in spite of large discrepancies e.g. in the local reaction terms.

[4] Reaction–diffusion processes form one class of explanation for the embryonic development of animal coats and skin pigmentation.

[5][6] Another reason for the interest in reaction-diffusion systems is that although they represent nonlinear partial differential equations, there are often possibilities for an analytical treatment.