Flexible material mimics octopus skin with nanoscale color and texture transformations

Stanford researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering ...
Nanowerk

Nanostructured material changes color and texture like an octopus

Researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering potential ...
Nature

Genetic Mechanisms of Pigmentation and Color Patterns in Fish

The genetic underpinnings of pigmentation and colour patterning in fish encompass a complex interplay of gene regulation, cell fate determination and evolutionary innovation. Neural crest cells, which ...
Nature

The genetic basis of recessive self-colour pattern in a wild sheep population

The ASIP gene encodes for a signalling molecule that inhibits the binding of MC1R to its ligand, α-melanocyte stimulating hormone, inducing a switch from production of eumelanin (black or brown ...
New Scientist

Colour pattern on insect's wings preserved in fossil

The colour of prehistoric animals is almost impossible to determine, because fossilisation does not preserve it. But under exceptional circumstances, colour patterns survive. In the Crato Formation in ...