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, Volume 79, Issue 2, pp 60–67 | Cite as

Biosemiotics —a paradigm of biology

Biological signalling on the verge of deterministic chaos
  • J. Eder
  • H. Rembold
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Authors and Affiliations

  • J. Eder
    • 1
  • H. Rembold
    • 1
  1. 1.Max-Planck-Institut für BiochemieGermany

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