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Animal patterns are a source of endless fascination, and now researchers have worked out how zebrafish develop their stripes. Animal patterns -- the stripes, spots and rosettes seen in the wild -- are ...

Andrey Fadeev, Patricia Mendoza-Garcia, Uwe Irion, Jikui Guan, Kathrin Pfeifer, Stephanie Wiessner, Fabrizio Serluca, Ajeet Pratap Singh, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Ruth H. Palmer Proceedings of the ...

The genetic underpinnings of pigmentation and colour patterning in fish encompass a complex interplay of gene regulation, cell fate determination and evolutionary innovation. Neural crest cells, which ...

A new mathematical tool could help scientists better understand how zebrafish get their stripes as well as other self-assembled patterns in nature. The iconic stripes of zebrafish are a classic ...

The chromatophore pattern on oval squid Left, a picture of a six-week old squid, with (right) a zoom in on the chromatophore pattern, with chromatophores highlighted by green dotted circles. The ...

Animal patterns - the stripes, spots and rosettes seen in the wild - are a source of endless fascination, and now researchers at the University Bath have developed a robust mathematical model to ...