image: Pigment pattern of wild-type zebrafish and jaguar mutants. Black cells and yellow cells are melanophores and xanthophores, respectively. Scale bars in overall views indicate one centimeter; enlarged views, 100 micrometers. Blue dotted lines indicate the edge of each group of pigment cells. For more information, please see Figure A in the manuscript. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 10, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Inaba at Osaka University in Osaka, Japan, and colleagues was titled, “Pigment Pattern Formation by Contact-Dependent Depolarization." view more
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