Biocommunication : sign-mediated interactions between cells and organisms / editors, Richard Gordon, Joseph Seckbach. -- Hoboken, New Jersey : World Scientific, 2016 .—(58.17115 /B615s)

Contents

Part I  Theoretical Approaches

1. Molecular Biocommunication

2. Key Levels of Biocommunication

3. Zoosemiotics, Typologies of Signs and Continuity Between Humans and Other Animals

4. Communication as an Artificial Process

5. Cybernetic Embryo

6. Superfast Evolution via Trans- and Interspecies Biocommunication

7. Channel Capacity and Rate Distortion in Amino Acid Networks

8. Communication Languages and Agents in Biological Systems

Part II Experimental Approaches

9. Chemical Communication

10. Paenibacillus vortex -- A Bacterial Guide to the Wisdom of the Crowd

11. The Crosstalk Between Plants and Their Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbionts: A Mycocentric View

12. Attraction of Preferred Prey by Carnivorous Plants

13. Animal Communication: Competition for Acoustic Space in Birds and Fish

14. The Contribution of Biocommunication (BICO) to Biomedical and Tissue Engineering: A Tech Mining Study

15. Communication Languages and Agents in Biological Systems

16. Ethical Methods of Investigation with Pan/Homo Bonobos and Chimpanzees

17. Conversing with Dolphins: The Holy Grail of Interspecies Communication?

Index