Skin patterns are the first example of the existence of Turing patterns in living organisms.
Extensive research on zebrafish, a model organism with stripes on its skin, has revealed the …

Skin pigment patterns of vertebrates are stunningly diverse, and nowhere more so than in
teleost fishes. Several species, including relatives of zebrafish, recently evolved cichlid …

In Darwin's and Mendel's times, researchers investigated a wealth of organisms, chosen to
solve particular problems for which they seemed especially well suited. Later, a focus on a …

Neural crest cells are highly multipotent stem cells, but it remains unclear how their fate
restriction to specific fates occurs. The direct fate restriction model hypothesises that …

Thyroid hormone (TH) regulates diverse developmental events and can drive disparate
cellular outcomes. In zebrafish, TH has opposite effects on neural crest derived pigment …

Reptilian skin coloration is spectacular and diverse, yet little is known about the ontogenetic
processes that govern its establishment and the molecular signaling pathways that …

Animal pigment patterns are excellent models to elucidate mechanisms of biological
organization. Although theoretical simulations, such as Turing reaction–diffusion systems …

Determining how plasticity of developmental traits responds to environmental conditions is a
challenge that must combine evolutionary sciences, ecology, and developmental biology …

In 1952, Alan Turing published the reaction-diffusion (RD) mathematical framework, laying
the foundations of morphogenesis as a self-organized process emerging from …

Anemonefish, are a group of about 30 species of damselfish (Pomacentridae) that have long
aroused the interest of coral reef fish ecologists. Combining a series of original biological …