ArticleiScience2018
Neural Control of Dynamic 3-Dimensional Skin Papillae for Cuttlefish Camouflage.
Article in iScience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Visual contrast from background features and dynamic illumination contributes to three-dimensional camouflage in cuttlefish.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Molecular and Morphological Circuitry of the Octopus Sucker Ganglion.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2025Article
- Multiple hunting displays in wild broadclub cuttlefish.Ecology · 2025Article
- Transforming patterned defects into dynamic poly-regional topographies in liquid crystal oligomers.Materials horizons · 2024Article
- Toward an Understanding of Octopus Arm Motor Control.Integrative and comparative biology · 2023Review
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- Dynamic Courtship Signals and Mate Preferences inFrontiers in physiology · 2020Article
- Neural pathways in the pallial nerve and arm nerve cord revealed by neurobiotin backfilling in the cephalopod mollusk Octopus vulgaris.Invertebrate neuroscience : IN · 2019Article
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- The Current State of Cephalopod Science and Perspectives on the Most Critical Challenges Ahead From Three Early-Career Researchers.Frontiers in physiology · 2018Review
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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Abstract
The color and pattern changing abilities of octopus, squid, and cuttlefish via chromatophore neuromuscular organs are unparalleled. Cuttlefish and octopuses also have a unique muscular hydrostat system in their skin. When this system is expressed, dermal bumps called papillae disrupt body shape and imitate the fine texture of surrounding objects, yet the control system is unknown. Here we report for papillae: (1) the motoneurons and the neurotransmitters that control activation and relaxation, (2) a physiologically fast expression and retraction system, and (3) a complex of smooth and striated muscles that enables long-term expression of papillae through sustained tension in the absence of neural input. The neural circuits controlling acute shape-shifting skin papillae in cuttlefish show homology to the iridescence circuits in squids. The sustained tension in papillary muscles for long-term camouflage utilizes muscle heterogeneity and points toward the existence of a "catch-like" mechanism that would reduce the necessary energy expenditure.
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