PUBLICATION
Fish pigmentation. Response to Comment on "Local reorganization of xanthophores fine-tunes and colors the striped pattern of zebrafish"
- Authors
- Singh, A.P., Frohnhöfer, H.G., Irion, U., Nüsslein-Volhard, C.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-150418-5
- Date
- 2015
- Source
- Science (New York, N.Y.) 348: 297 (Other)
- Registered Authors
- Frohnhöfer, Hans Georg, Irion, Uwe, Nüsslein-Volhard, Christiane
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Body Patterning/physiology*
- Chromatophores/physiology*
- Skin Pigmentation/physiology*
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- PubMed
- 25883351 Full text @ Science
Citation
Singh, A.P., Frohnhöfer, H.G., Irion, U., Nüsslein-Volhard, C. (2015) Fish pigmentation. Response to Comment on "Local reorganization of xanthophores fine-tunes and colors the striped pattern of zebrafish". Science (New York, N.Y.). 348:297.
Abstract
Watanabe and Kondo question our conclusion that the current Turing-type model of color patterning in zebrafish requires modification. In addition to xanthophores and melanophores, iridophores are essential for stripe formation in the body, although not in the fins. A model of predictive value should accommodate the in vivo dynamics and interactions of all three chromatophore types in body stripe formation.
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