image: This shows exhibition chickens displaying distinct black and white pigment patterns created by spatial and temporal control of melanocyte distribution and differentiation. From top left, male Silver Spangled Hamburg; male Barred Wyandotte; female Silver Laced Wyandotte; male Silver laced Wyandotte. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the April 26, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.J. Lin at University of Southern California in Los Angeles, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "Topology of Feather Melanocyte Progenitor Niche Allows Complex Pigment Patterns to Emerge." view more
Credit: [Figure design: John Foley. Photo credits: Male Silver Spangled Hamburg: Jim Legendre; Male Barred Wyandotte: Grant Brereton; Female Silver Laced Wyandotte and male Silver laced Wyandotte: Doug and Pete Akers]