How a zebrafish gets its stripes
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Channel: Science News · 2014 · Science & Technology
Pigment cells from zebrafish play a game of tag in which black melanophores shy away from yellow xanthophores. The movements eventually lead to stripes on fishes' fins. Mutations that interfere with this choreography create spots or fuzzy, wide stripes. Read more at sciencenews.org: http://ow.ly/sO4Ip Credit: H. Yamanaka and S. Kondo, PNAS, 2014
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