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 ...

University of Ferrara researchers in Italy have examined how European skin, eye and hair pigmentation evolved over the past 45,000 years. Findings indicate that lighter pigmentation traits emerged ...

Vitiligo is a condition characterized by a loss of pigment (melanin), which results in the most common symptom: white or ...

Hoekstra is interested in how pigment patterns—like stripes—confer fitness advantages for mammals, as well as how these patterns evolved. Unlike lab mice, both African mice and chipmunks are active ...

Ted Pietsch, a University of Washington ichthyologist, says the lures’ different shapes, pigment patterns, and flash patterns tell a male when he’s found a female of his species to hook up with.

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 ...

The elastomeric properties of the membrane around the pigment granules -the cytoeslastic ... by providing a white backdrop, aiding in patterns that disrupts the cuttlefish and octopus body outline ...

Being aware of the challenges faced by actual users of PIGMENT TOKYO's artistic resources often proves valuable. For instance, the shortage of journeymen in Japanese art has long been a serious ...