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Comment on “Local reorganization of xanthophores fine-tunes and colors the striped pattern of zebrafish”

Author(s) -

Masakatsu Watanabe,

Shigeru Kondo

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 12.556

H-Index - 1186

eISSN - 1095-9203

pISSN - 0036-8075

DOI - 10.1126/science.1261947

Subject(s) - zebrafish , mechanism (biology) , turing , computer science , pattern formation , biology , evolutionary biology , cognitive science , psychology , genetics , epistemology , philosophy , gene , programming language

Mahalwar et al. (Reports, 12 September 2014, p. 1362) observed the onset of pigment pattern formation in zebrafish. They concluded that their data do not support our Turing mechanism-based model and presented an essentially different mechanism. Here, we clarify their misunderstanding that may have caused their conclusion and explain past experimental data that do not support their proposed mechanism.

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