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    Université de Fribourg

    Extending the mathematical palette for developmental pattern formation: piebaldism

    Dougoud, Michaël ; Mazza, Christian ; Schwaller, Beat ; Pecze, László

    In: Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2019, vol. 81, no. 5, p. 1461–1478

    Here, we present a theoretical investigation with potential insights on developmental mechanisms. Three biological factors, consisting of two diffusing factors and a cell- autonomous immobile transcription factor are combined with different feedback mechanisms. This results in four different situations or fur patterns. Two of them reproduce classical Turing patterns: (1) regularly spaced...

    Université de Fribourg

    The feasibility of equilibria in large ecosystems: A primary but neglected concept in the complexity-stability debate

    Dougoud, Michaël ; Vinckenbosch, Laura ; Rohr, Rudolf P. ; Bersier, Louis-Félix ; Mazza, Christian

    In: PLOS Computational Biology, 2018, vol. 14, no. 2, p. e1005988

    The consensus that complexity begets stability in ecosystems was challenged in the seventies, a result recently extended to ecologically-inspired networks. The approaches assume the existence of a feasible equilibrium, i.e. with positive abundances. However, this key assumption has not been tested. We provide analytical results complemented by simulations which show that equilibrium...

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    The effect of gap junctional coupling on the spatiotemporal patterns of Ca2+ signals and the harmonization of Ca2+-related cellular responses

    Dougoud, Michaël ; Vinckenbosch, Laura ; Mazza, Christian ; Schwaller, Beat ; Peczey, László

    In: PLOS Computational Biology, 2016, vol. 12, no. 12, p. e1005295

    The calcium ion (Ca²⁺), a universal signaling molecule, is widely recognized to play a fundamental role in the regulation of various biological processes. Agonist–evoked Ca²⁺ signals often manifest as rhythmic changes in the cytosolic free Ca²⁺ concentration (ccyt) called Ca²⁺ oscillations. Stimuli intensity was found to be proportional to the oscillation frequency...