#How the zebrafish got its stripes
“#How the zebrafish got its stripes” Zoom into the zebrafish’s alternating pattern and the stripes of colour resolve into individual pigment cells like a pointillist painting. Credit: Adapted by Kit Yates from Wikimedia and inset by Jennifer Owen Animal patterns—the stripes, spots and rosettes seen in the wild—are a source of endless fascination, and now…