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Patterns on animal skin, such as zebra stripes and poison frog color patches, serve various biological functions, including temperature regulation, camouflage and warning signals.

Just like adaptive skin patterns in animals, when Turing patterns change—say from hexagons to stripes—this indicates underlying differences in chemical concentrations inside or outside the body.

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Reiter et al. wanted to take a closer look at exactly how the cuttlefish achieves different skin patterns. Prior research indicated that the cuttlefish use vision to assess their environment ...

Data from around 200,000 skin pattern images were then crunched by the supercomputer at OIST and analyzed by a type of artificial intelligence, known as a neural network.

In many animals, skin colouration and its patterns play a crucial role in camouflage, communication, or thermoregulation. In the corn snake, some morphs display red, yellow, or pink blotches, and ...

Barsh’s team now sees cat color-pattern production as a two-step process. First, skin cells determine if the tabby patterns will be dark or light. Then, hair follicles grow and make pigments.

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