Factoid/2020/07/30
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Scientists Now Understand How Zebrafish Got Their Stripes
- "Animal patterns – the stripes, spots and rosettes seen in the wild – are a source of endless fascination, and now researchers at the University Bath have developed a robust mathematical model to explain how one important species, the zebrafish, develops its stripes. ... Zebrafish provide fundamental insights into the complex, and often wondrous, processes that underpin biology. Studying their striking appearance may, in time, be relevant to medicine, since pattern formation is an important general feature of organ development. Therefore, a better understanding of pigment pattern formation might give us insights into diseases caused by disruption to cell arrangements within organs." - Excerpt from University of Bath
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