Publications

A Gierer, "The Hydra model: a model for what?," International Journal of Developmental Biology 56 (6-8), 437-445 (2012).

A Gierer, "Brain, mind and limitations of a scientific theory of human consciousness," Bioessays 30 (5), 499-505 (2008).

A Gierer, "Human brain evolution, theories of innovation, and lessons from the history of technology," Journal of Biosciences 29 (3), 235-244 (2004).

A Gierer, "Theoretical approaches to holistic biological features: Pattern formation, neural networks and the brain-mind relation," Journal of Biosciences 27 (3), 195-205 (2002).

H Meinhardt and A Gierer, "Pattern formation by local self-activation and lateral inhibition," Bioessays 22 (8), 753-760 (2000).

S Reimann, JM Fuster, A Gierer, G Mayer-Kress , TR Neumann, P Roelfsema, S Rotter, G Schoner , A Stephan, E Vaadia, and H Walter, "Emergent properties of natural and artificial systems," Zeitschrift für Naturforschung, C: Journal of Biosciences 53 (7-8), 770-774 (1998).

A Gierer, "Possible involvement of gradients in guidance of receptor cell axons towards their target position on the olfactory bulb," European Journal of Neuroscience: European Neuroscience Association 10 (1), 388-391 (1998).

E Baake and T Wiehe, "Bifurcations in haploid and diploid sequence space models," Journal of Mathematical Biology 35 (3), 321-343 (1997).

E Baake, M Baake, and H Wagner, "Ising Quantum Chain is Equivalent to a Model of Biological Evolution," Physical Review Letters 78 (3), 559-562 (1997).

H Meinhardt, "Biological pattern formation as a complex dynamic phenomenon," International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos in Applied Sciences and Engineering 7 (1), 99-132 (1997).

E Willbold, P Mansky, and PG Layer, "Lateral and radial growth uncoupled in reaggregated retinospheroids of embryonic avian retina," International Journal of Developmental Biology 40 (6), 1151-1159 (1996).

B Weiss, D Del Turco, and PG Layer, "Proliferating and differentiating Schwann cell cultures from embryonic chick sciatic nerve maintained for months in vitro without antimitotics or growth factors," European Journal of Cell Biology: EJCB 70 (2), 106-116 (1996).

H Meinhardt, "Models of biological pattern formation: common mechanism in plant and animal development," International Journal of Developmental Biology 40 (1), 123-134 (1996).

T Wiehe, E Baake, and P Schuster, "Error propagation in reproduction of diploid organisms: A case study on single peaked landscapes," Journal of Theoretical Biology 177 (1), 1-15 (1995).

E Willbold, M Reinicke, C Lance-Jones, C Lagenaur, V Lemmon, and PG Layer, "Müller glia stabilizes cell columns during retinal development: lateral cell migration but not neuropil growth is inhibited in mixed chick-quail retinospheroids," European Journal of Neuroscience 7 (11), 2277-2284 (1995).

E Baake, "Diploid models on sequence space," Journal of Biological Systems 3 (2), 343-349 (1995).

A Gierer and CM Müller, "Development of layers, maps and modules," Current Opinion in Neurobiology 5 (1), 91-97 (1995).

R Alber, O Sporns, T Weikert, E Willbold, and PG Layer, "Cholinesterases and peanut agglutinin binding related to cell proliferation and axonal growth in embryonic chick limbs," Anatomy and Embryology 190 (5), 429-438 (1994).

H Baier, S Rotter, and S Korsching, "Connectional topography in the zebrafish olfactory system: Random positions but regular spacing of sensory neurons projecting to an individual glomerulus," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 91 (24), 11646-11650 (1994).

H Meinhardt, "Biological pattern formation: new observations provide support for theoretical predictions," Bioessays 16 (9), 627-632 (1994).