The genetic underpinnings of pigmentation and colour patterning in fish encompass a complex interplay of gene regulation, cell fate determination and evolutionary innovation. Neural crest cells, which ...

Often when describing patterns, they are placed in one of two categories: organic or geometric. Organic designs are ones ...

On a March day in 2023, Ben Alessio, then a research assistant at CU Boulder, was wandering around the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla, California, when he clocked a surprising sight: a male ornate boxfish ...

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Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in the face of climate change and other human-caused pressures, a new study reveals Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in ...

Researchers show that stripe patterns which appear when red blood cells are separated in a centrifuge are primarily caused by ...