A note on a reaction-diffusion model describing the bone morphogen protein gradient in Drosophila embryonic patterning
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In this article, we consider the Eldar model [3] from embryology in which a bone morphogenic protein, a short gastrulation protein, and their compound react and diffuse. We carry out a perturbation analysis in the limit of small diffusivity of the bone morphogenic protein. This analysis establishes conditions under which some elementary results of [3] are valid. §
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تاریخ انتشار 2012