More than 70 years ago, mathematician Alan Turing proposed a mechanism that explained how patterns could ... out that when the stripes are first forming, the developing yellow cells also make ...

yellow, or pink blotches, and their dorsal spots can merge or turn into stripes. But which genetic and cellular mechanisms determine these colorful patterns? A team discovered that a single gene ...

Scientists have long puzzled over how animals’ stripes, spots, dots, blazes and other color patterns arise ... the cells interact under a microscope. Yellow pigment cells called xanthophores ...

But the Florida version has a distinct pattern of bright yellow stripes that make it easy to identify. It has two stripes on each side of the head and usually has three toes on the hind feet.

yellow xanthophores and silver and blue iridophores. Our research focused on understanding how enough of these cells interacting in the right way can result in the alternating striped patterns on ...