title: [From a periodic chemical reaction to the dynamics of microbial communities].
abstract: The first articles published by Anatol Zhabotinsky have been analyzed. The mechanisms of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky and Bray-Liebhafsky oscillating chemical reactions were compared. It was shown that the traditional chemical kinetics, the new methods of molecular biology as well as isotopic composition analysis made it possible to consider new constraints concerning the degradation of organic matter and microbial dynamics. A mathematical model was developed to describe isotope accumulation in biomass and reaction products.
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Vavilin
mesh_terms: D001673:Biodegradation, Environmental; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D017753:Ecosystem; D019605:Euryarchaeota / Q000502:physiology*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010507:Periodicity; D014586:USSR; D014481:United States