Melanophores in the stripes of adult zebrafish do not have the nature to gather, but disperse when they have the space to move.

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Animal skin pattern is one of the good model systems used to study the mechanism of pattern formation. Molecular genetic studies with zebrafish have shown that pigment cells play a major role in the mechanism of stripe formation. Among the variety of cellular events that may be involved in the me...

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