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Having described various motor systems and the ways in which they can be used to drive cells around, we must now consider factors which control and regulate movement, for if self-propelled cells are not controlled by rules of behaviour then biological systems would be worse than large cities in the rush hour. Our vehicular analogy ‘asks’ for a driver and a set of traffic rules, and the remaining chapters attempt to describe these aspects of cell behaviour.
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Berg, H. C. 1983. Random walks in biology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. A valuable and thought provoking book; an approachable treatment of the more theoretical aspects of random walks for the committed biologist.
Dunn, G. A. 1981. Chemotaxis as a form of directed cell behaviour: some theoretical considerations. In Biology of the chemotactic response, J.M. Lackie and P. C. Wilkinson (eds), 1–26. Cambridge: CUP. Despite its title this article sets out the problems of isotropic environments in a very clear form. Much easier for the general biological reader than Berg.
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Lackie, J.M. (1986). Moving in a Uniform Environment. In: Cell Movement and Cell Behaviour. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4071-0_7
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