Brown and green are the most commonly imitated colors in prey animals because both colors occur in a range of habitats. Many researchers have evaluated survival with respect to background color matching, but the pigment cell mechanisms underlying ...
EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT 19(1) 29-39 2017年1月 [査読有り]
The combination of body stripes and vivid blue tail color has independently evolved in different lizard families. To understand how and when lizards developed this coloration, we microscopically compared the embryonic development of pigment cells ...
Juveniles of numerous lizard species have a vividly blue-coloured tail that likely serves to deflect predator attacks toward the autotomizable tail rather than the lizard's body. The shades of blue colour in the tails of juvenile Plestiodon latisc...
Elucidating the ultimate and proximate mechanisms of melanistic color pattern formation has become an important focus of evolutionary biology. There are relatively few studies, however, examining the composition and architecture of pigment cells i...
JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY 277(2) 196-203 2016年2月 [査読有り]
Postembryonic changes in the dermal and epidermal pigment cell architecture of the striped and nonstriped morph of the Japanese four-lined snake Elaphe quadrivirgata were examined to reveal stripe pattern formation after hatching. The striped and ...
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