ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2021
Phase transitions in biology: from bird flocks to population dynamics.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Nonlinear Growth Dynamics of Neuronal Cells Cultured on Directional Surfaces.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Spatiotemporal phase slip patterns for visual evoked potentials, covert object naming tasks, and insight moments extracted from 256 channel EEG recordings.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2023Article
- Thinking about the action potential: the nerve signal as a window to the physical principles guiding neuronal excitability.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
Phase transitions are an important and extensively studied concept in physics. The insights derived from understanding phase transitions in physics have recently and successfully been applied to a number of different phenomena in biological systems. Here, we provide a brief review of phase transitions and their role in explaining biological processes ranging from collective behaviour in animal flocks to neuronal firing. We also highlight a new and exciting area where phase transition theory is particularly applicable: population collapse and extinction. We discuss how phase transition theory can give insight into a range of extinction events such as population decline due to climate change or microbial responses to stressors such as antibiotic treatment.
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