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 ...

Of his final paper, Turing said that it “does not make any new hypotheses; it merely suggests that certain well-known ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Archaeologists excavating near the Colosseum found a rare chunk of Egyptian blue pigment dating back about 2,000 years. Photo from Simona Murrone and the Colosseum Archaeological Park Across the ...

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 ...