Study of zebrafish skin patterns shows cells chasing other cells around (w/ video)

Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - 09:30 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org) —A team of researchers at Osaka University in Japan has discovered that one type of zebrafish pigment cell chases another around in a Petri dish possibly explaining how they fish gets its stripes. The team has published its findings in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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