ArticleScience advances2020
Pattern blending enriches the diversity of animal colorations.
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- Color patterns as a model for connecting developmental mechanisms to phenotypic evolution.Nature communications · 2026Review
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- Cell-cell communication as underlying principle governing color pattern formation in teleost fishes.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Linking discrete and continuous models of cell birth and migration.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Mechanisms Underlying the Formation and Evolution of Vertebrate Color Patterns.Annual review of genetics · 2023Review
- Development shapes the evolutionary diversification of rodent stripe patterns.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Studies of Turing pattern formation in zebrafish skin.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2021Review
- The beneficial roles of poisonous skin secretions in survival strategies of the odorous frog Odorrana andersonii.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2021Article
- Evolution of pigment cells and patterns: recent insights from teleost fishes.Current opinion in genetics & development · 2021Review
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Abstract
Animals exhibit a fascinating variety of skin patterns, but mechanisms underlying this diversity remain largely unknown, particularly for complex and camouflaged colorations. A mathematical model predicts that intricate color patterns can be formed by "pattern blending" between simple motifs via hybridization. Here, I analyzed the skin patterns of 18,114 fish species and found strong mechanistic associations between camouflaged labyrinthine patterns and simple spot motifs, showing remarkable consistency with the pattern blending hypothesis. Genomic analyses confirmed that the coloring on multiple labyrinthine fish species has originated from pattern blending by hybridization, and phylogenetic comparative analyses have further substantiated the pattern blending hypothesis in multiple major fish lineages. These findings provide a plausible mechanistic explanation for the characteristic diversity of animal markings and suggest a novel evolutionary process of complex and camouflaged colorations by means of pattern blending.
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