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SUBMITTER: Volkening A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4685853 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20151101 112
Zebrafish have distinctive black stripes and yellow interstripes that form owing to the interaction of different pigment cells. We present a two-population agent-based model for the development and regeneration of these stripes and interstripes informed by recent experimental results. Our model describes stripe pattern formation, laser ablation and mutations. We find that fish growth shortens the necessary scale for long-range interactions and that iridophores, a third type of pigment cell, help ...[more]