Stripes are common in our lives. It’s a pretty basic pattern, and easy to take for granted. As an applied mathematician who studies how patterns form in nature, though, I am wowed by the striped ...

Figure 1: Different pigment patterns of D. rerio and D. albolineatus. Figure 2: Enhanced Csf1 expression in D. albolineatus through cis regulatory evolution. Figure 3: Time and pattern of xanthophore ...

Researchers say the feisty, territorial fish tell between threatening intruders and innocuous cohabitants by counting the stripes across their bodies. Scientists tested the orange fish to gauge their ...

One of the things the human brain naturally excels at is recognizing all sorts of patterns, such as stripes on zebras, shells of turtles, and even the structure of crystals. Thanks to our progress in ...

Several anemonefish or clownfish share one anemone, with the largest fish being a female. This is a trio of common clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris). Dauin, Philippines. (Credit: Klaus Stiefel / CC ...

The dazzling variety of coral fish. On the left is the copperband butterflyfish, on the right the Picasso triggerfish. Nemo, alias Amphiprion ocellaris, belongs to the clownfish group, which includes ...

Visual signals, such as color patterns are an important communication medium for anemonefish. Researchers from Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology have recently elucidated how the patterns on ...

This astonishing GIF shows a microscopic chase scene: A black cell flees from the touch of a yellow cell, and the yellow cell goes after it. On their own, the two cells go round and round. But if ...

Figure 1: Iridophores originate from progenitors located in the dorsal root ganglia (DRG) and organize along the dorsoventral axis in the skin. Figure 2: Iridophores follow a stereotypic pattern of ...

Scientists have decoded the evolution of the distinctive orange and white patterned clownfish — the coral reef fish species that was featured in the popular animated movie ‘Finding Nemo.’ Coral reef ...

Hybrid striped bass, or “wipers,” are a genetic cross between striped bass and white bass. The result is a silver fish with horizontal black stripes and a black back — with the potential to grow large ...