Studies of Turing pattern formation in zebrafish skin

Skin patterns are the first example of the existence of Turing patterns in living organisms. Extensive research on zebrafish, a model organism with stripes on its skin, has revealed the principles of pattern formation at the molecular and cellular levels. Surprisingly, although the networks of cell–cell interactions have been observed to satisfy the ‘short-range activation and long-range inhibition’ prerequisites for Turing pattern formation,...