Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

Homotypic cell competition regulates proliferation and tiling of zebrafish pigment cells during colour pattern formation

  • Brigitte Walderich,
  • Ajeet Pratap Singh,
  • Prateek Mahalwar,
  • Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11462
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Melanophores, iridophores and xanthophores are pigment-cell types that interact to form the stripes in zebrafish. Here, the authors study the interaction between cells of the same kind and show that each pigment-cell type covers the skin by contact based competition.