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Scientists discover how zebrafish gets its stripes

New research shows that the yellow cells undergo dramatic changes in cell shape to tint the stripe pattern of zebrafish. "We were surprised to observe such cell behaviours, as these were totally unexpected from what we knew about colour pattern formation," said Prateek Mahalwar, first author of the study.