... the genetic and cellular bases of pigment pattern variation in vertebrates. The two sister species Danio rerio and Danio aesculapii show divergent patterns of horizontal stripes and vertical bars that are partly caused by the divergence of the potassium channel gene kcnj13 . Here, we show that kcnj13...

.... Periodic patterning Reaction-diffusion Turing Mathematical biology Pattern formation Pigment pattern Periodic patterns – most commonly stripes or spots – arise in a variety of organisms and tissues across a wide range of length scales ( Marcon and Sharpe, 2012 ). Well-studied examples include...

...Hiroki Hamada; Masakatsu Watanabe; Hiu Eunice Lau; Tomoki Nishida; Toshiaki Hasegawa; David M. Parichy; Shigeru Kondo The skin pigment pattern of zebrafish is a good model system in which to study the mechanism of biological pattern formation. Although it is known that interactions between...

...Margaret G. Mills; Richard J. Nuckels; David M. Parichy The cellular bases for evolutionary changes in adult form remain largely unknown. Pigment patterns of Danio fishes are a convenient system for studying these issues because of their diversity and accessibility and because one species...

...Ian K. Quigley; Joan L. Manuel; Reid A. Roberts; Richard J. Nuckels; Emily R. Herrington; Erin L. MacDonald; David M. Parichy The developmental bases for species differences in adult phenotypes remain largely unknown. An emerging system for studying such variation is the adult pigment pattern...

... the evolutionary diversification of adult pigment patterns in Danio fishes . These pigment patterns result from the numbers and arrangements of embryonic melanophores that are derived from embryonic neural crest cells, as well as from post-embryonic metamorphic melanophores that are derived from latent precursors...

...Florian Maderspacher; Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Colour patterns are a prominent feature of many animals and are of high evolutionary relevance. In zebrafish, the adult pigment pattern comprises alternating stripes of two pigment cell types, melanophores and xanthophores. How the stripes...

...David M. Parichy; Jessica M. Turner Ectothermic vertebrates exhibit a diverse array of adult pigment patterns. A common element of these patterns is alternating dark and light stripes each comprising different classes of neural crest-derived pigment cells. In the zebrafish, Danio rerio...

...David M. Parichy; David G. Ransom; Barry Paw; Leonard I. Zon; Stephen L. Johnson ABSTRACT Developmental mechanisms underlying traits expressed in larval and adult vertebrates remain largely unknown. Pigment patterns of fishes provide an opportunity to identify genes and cell behaviors required...

... gave the same results as counting the xanthophore number in the larva ( Table 2 ). Table 2. Genes required for xanthophore pigmentation but not for melanophore or iridophore development Fig. 2. Adult fish that are heterozygous or homozygous for salz or pfeffer show pigment pattern...