title: Fish pigmentation. Response to Comment on "Local reorganization of xanthophores fine-tunes and colors the striped pattern of zebrafish".
abstract: Watanabe and Kondo question our conclusion that the current Turing-type model of color patterning in zebrafish requires modification. In addition to xanthophores and melanophores, iridophores are essential for stripe formation in the body, although not in the fins. A model of predictive value should accommodate the in vivo dynamics and interactions of all three chromatophore types in body stripe formation.
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, Tübingen, Germany ajeet.singh@tuebingen.mpg.de christiane.nuesslein-volhard@tuebingen.mpg.de.
authors.forename: Ajeet Pratap
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Hans-Georg
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Frohnhöfer
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Uwe
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Irion
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, Tübingen, Germany ajeet.singh@tuebingen.mpg.de christiane.nuesslein-volhard@tuebingen.mpg.de.
authors.forename: Christiane
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nüsslein-Volhard
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019521:Body Patterning / Q000502:physiology*; D002856:Chromatophores / Q000502:physiology*; D012880:Skin Pigmentation / Q000502:physiology*; D015027:Zebrafish / Q000196:embryology*