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SUBMITTER: Patterson LB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4224114 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20141106
Fishes have diverse pigment patterns, yet mechanisms of pattern evolution remain poorly understood. In zebrafish, Danio rerio, pigment-cell autonomous interactions generate dark stripes of melanophores that alternate with light interstripes of xanthophores and iridophores. Here, we identify mechanisms underlying the evolution of a uniform pattern in D. albolineatus in which all three pigment cell classes are intermingled. We show that in this species xanthophores differentiate precociously over ...[more]