Pigment is a critical component of colour. The team can map the presence of pigments over whole fossils, revealing original patterns. The team’s findings indicate that pigment chemistry holds the ...

Depending on how much and which part of the region is modified, different areas of the pigment pattern change. This shows that the region contains several non-modular enhancers (blue = strong gene ...

“Nobody really pays much attention to the later stages” of the fish’s development, says University of Virginia biologist David Parichy. “But for years, [our lab] has worked on pigmentation and pattern ...