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Bulletin of ISSN 0092-8240 Mathematical Biology A journal devoted to research at the interface of theoretical and experimental biology Volume 56, 1994 CONTENTS, AUTHOR AND SUBJECT INDEX Official Journal of the SOCIETY FOR MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY © PERGAMON BULLETIN OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY A journal devoted to research at the interface of theoretical and experimental biology Editor Lee A. SEGEL, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Publication Board Chairman ALAN S. PERELSON, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM Associate Editors Roy M. ANDERSON, University of Oxford, U.K. J.-P. CHANGEUXx, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France PAULINE HOGEWEG, State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands Smwon A. Levin, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Dona_Lp Lupwic, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Hans MEINHARDT, Max Planck Institute, Tiibingen, Germany Epuarpbo Mizraji, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay James D. Murray, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Fumio Oosawa, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan GarreTT M. ODELL, University of Washington, Seattle, WA HANNA Parnas, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel SHIMON ULLMAN, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel MICHAEL S. WATERMAN, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Book Review Editor Mark Kot, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Production Editor STEPHEN Raywoop, Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, U.K. (Facsimile: 01865-843948; E. mail: s. raywood @ elsevier. co. uk) Annual Subscription Rates Annual Institutional Subscription Rates 1995: North, Central and South America US$663.00, Rest of World £445.00. Associated Personal Subscription Rates are available on request for those whose institutions are library subscribers. Sterling prices exclude VAT. Non-VAT registered customers in the European Community will be charged the appropriate VAT in addition to the price listed. 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Second class postage paid at Newark, NJ and additional mailing offices. Postmaster send address corrections to Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, c/o Elsevier Science Inc., 660 White Plains Road , Tarrytown, NY 10591-5153, U.S.A. Whilst every effort is made by the publishers and editorial board to see that no inaccurate or misleading data, opinion or statement appear in this journal, they wish to make it clear that the data and opinions appearing in the articles and advertisements herein are the sole responsibility of the contributor or advertiser concerned. Accordingly, the publishers, the editorial board and editors and their respective employees, officers and agents accept no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the consequences of any such inaccurate or misleading data, opinion or statement. No. 1 FONTANA, W. and L. W. Buss. ‘‘The Arrival of the Fittest’’: Toward a Theory of Biological Organization WILHELM, T., E. HOFFMANN-KLIPP and R. HEINRICH. An Evolutionary Approach to Enzyme Kinetics: Optimization of Ordered Mechanisms : : ; Tuck, G. N. and H. P. PossiINGHAM. Optimal Harvesting Strategies for a Metapopula- tion SHERRATT, J. A. Chemotaxis and Chemokinesis in Eukaryotic Cells: the Keller-Segel Equations as an Approximation to a Detailed Model SANCHEZ-MEJORADA, G., H. MERCHANT-LARIOS, F. ALONSO-DEFLORIDA and L. B. MORALES. Probability of Mast Cells to Mediate Anaphylaxis in Skeletal Muscle Book Reviews. (L. EDELSTEIN-KESHET on The Academic Job Search Handbook by M. M. Heiberger and J. M. Vick; R. M. SHYMKO on Biological Feedback by R. Thomas and R. D’Ari; W. HORSTHEMKE on Time’s Arrow: The Origins of Thermodynamic Behavior by M. C. Mackey; R. ALLEN WHITE on Flow Cytometry Data Analysis: Basic Concepts and Statistics by J. V. Watson) No. 2 GITTERMAN, M. and G. H. Weiss. Generalized Theory of the Kinetics of Tracers in Biological Systems Timm, U. and A. OxuBo. Gyrotaxis: a Plume Model for Self-focusing Micro-organisms . MICHELSON, S. and D. SLate. A Mathematical Model for the Inhibition of the weet Resistance-associated p-Glycoprotein Pump. err ee ee OVERHOLSER, K. A., N. A. LoMANGINO, T. R. Harris, J. D. BRADLEY and S. Bosan. Deduction of Pulmonary Microvascular Hematocrit from Indicator Dilution Curves . VAN VEEN, M. P. and J. VAN PELT. Neuritic Growth Rate Describedw ie oe Microtubule Dynamics SoBe W6 “Gacter <epca ite rey tend SKIENA, S. S. and G. SUNDARAM. A Partial Digest Approach to Restriction Site Mapping Kuznetsov, V. A., I. A.M AKALKIN, M. A. TayLor and A. S. PERELSON. Nonlinear Dynamics of Immunogenic Tumors: Parameter Estimation and Global Bifurcation Analysis . . LI-BING ZHANG, CHAN-YING Du and AN-SHEN Qi. Complex Behaviours of AB Model Describing Idiotypic Network ae KIMMEL, M. and D. N. Stivers. Time-continuous Branching Walk Models of Unstable Gene Amplification . eee its BSED AS Book Reviews. (C. RIBBENS on An Introduction to Parallel Programming by K. M. Chandy and S. Taylor; M. WitTEN on The Biology - aa tui a es, dimmnes siL A. Gavrilov and N. S. Gavrilova) d “ae? SPECIAL ISSUE: THEORETICAL RENAL PHYSIOLOGY Marsi, D. J. Introduction . Otiver, J. D., [fl and W. M. DEEN. Random-coil model for glomerular sieving of dextran Moorg, L. C., A. RicH and D. CASELLAS. Ascending myogenic autoregulation: interactions between tubuloglomerular feedback and myogenic mechanisms . ae te HOLsTEIN-RATHLOU, N.-H. and D. J. MarsH. A dynamic model of renal blood flow autoregulation . THomas, S. R. and G. DaGuer. A kinetic model of rat proximal tubule transport—load- dependent bicarbonate reabsorption along the tubule : KRAHN, T. A., P. S. ARONSON and A. M. WEINSTEIN. Weak acid permeability of a villous membrane: formic acid transport across rat proximal tubule Pewee Me aah rc Jen, J. F and J. L. STEPHENSON. Externally driven countercurrent multiplication in a mathematical model of the urinary concentrating mechanism of the renal inner medulla WANG, X., A. S. WEXLER and D. J. Marsu. The effect of solution non-ideality on membrane transport in three-dimensional models of the renal concentrating mechanism . Layton, H. E. and E. B. Prrman. A dynamic numerical method for models of renal tubules PITMAN, E. B., H. E. Layton and L. C. Moore. Numerical simulation of propagating concentration profiles in renal tubules avis (Ce Ga heamis CIVELEKOGLU, G. and L. EDELSTEIN-KESHET. Modelling the dynamics of F-actin in the cell Marusic, M., Z. Baszer, S. VUK-PavLovic and J. P. FREYER. Tumor growth in vivo and as multicellular spheroids compared by mathematical models . INDERMITTE, C., TH. M. LieBLING and H. CLEMENGON. Culture analysis and external interaction models of mycelial growth . FALKOVITZ, M. S. and E. FEINERMAN. Minimum leaching scheduling of nitrogen fertilization and irrigation . SEGEL, L. A. and E. JAGER. Reverse engineering: a model for T-cell vaccination . PHILLIPS, C. G., K. H. PARKER and W. WANG. A model for flow through discontinuities in the tight junction of the endothelial intercellular cleft ; WATERMAN, M. S. Parametric and ensemble sequence alignment algorithms . Book Reviews. (M. ConrapD on Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life by R. Rosen; D. L.D EANGELIs on Matrices and ae Stability Problems in Mathematical Ecology by D. O. Logofet) Korn, R. W. Analysis of Cell Packets in Elongating Plant Tissue LuBKIN, S. Undirectional Waves on Rings: Models for Chiral Preference of Circumnutating Plants . pees SHERMAN, A. Anti-phase, Asymmetric and Aperiodic Oscillations in Excitable Cells— I. Coupled Bursters MINKEVICH, I. G. and A. Y. ABRAMYCHEV. The Dynamics of Continuous Microbial Culture Described by Cell Age Distribution and Concentration of One Substrate Liu, WEI-MIN. Nonlinear Forecasting of Hepatitis and AIDS Incidence . Nuno, J. C. and P. TARAzoNA. Lifetimes of Small Catalytic Networks . Weissucu, G. and M. Oprea. Capacity of a Model Immune Network Da-Fu, Dinc, QIAN JIANG, and FenG Zu-Kana. A Differential Geometric Treatment of Protein Structure Comparison WENNERGREN, U., P. WEINERFELT and G. ForsLinc. Comparative Sensitivity Analysis of Stable Stage Structures and Reproductive Values . Lam, G. K. Y. A General Formulation of the Concept of Independent Action for the Combined Effects of Agents eS abe 5S Se saan cr, eames ka Truscott, J. E. and J. BRINDLEY. Ocean Plankton Populations as Excitable Media . Book Reviews. (R. ROSEN on The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution by S. A. Kauffman; G. B. ERMENTROUT on Mathematical Models in the Social and Biological Sciences by E. Beltrami; S. H. StroGatz on Molecular Genetics of Biological Rhythms by M. W. Young; M. MESTERTON-GIBBONS on Games of a Explorations in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior by K. Sigmund) ; : B. SuLzer, J. L. vAN HEMMEN and U. BEHN. Central Immune System, the Self and Autoimmunity 1009 P. V. MoGue and R. T. TRANQUILLO. Stochastic Model of Chemoattractant Receptor tai in Leukocyte Chemosensory Movement raw ee er 1041 S. AHARON, H. PARNAS and I. PARNAS. The Magnitude and Significance of Ca2+ Domains for Release of Neurotransmitter T. EAKIN. Intrinsic Time Scaling in Survival Analysis: Application to Biological Populations K.-N. SHENG and J. I. NAus. Pattern Matching Between Two Non-aligned Random Sequences Book Reviews. (B. SEVALLA on Modeling and Optimization of Fermentation Processes by B. Volesky and J. Votruba; N. D. STONE on Applied Demography for Biologists, With Special Emphasis on Insects by J. R. Carey; S. P. ELLNER on The Nature of Chaos by T. Mullin; P. K. Maint on Kinetic Theory of Pattern Formation by L. G. Harrison; W. S. C. Gurney on Analytical Population Dynamics by T. Royama)