Cargando…
Dynamic Skin Patterns in Cephalopods
Cephalopods are unrivaled in the natural world in their ability to alter their visual appearance. These mollusks have evolved a complex system of dermal units under neural, hormonal, and muscular control to produce an astonishing variety of body patterns. With parallels to the pixels on a television...
Autores principales: | , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Frontiers Media S.A.
2017
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5474490/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28674500 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2017.00393 |
_version_ | 1783244455475675136 |
---|---|
author | How, Martin J. Norman, Mark D. Finn, Julian Chung, Wen-Sung Marshall, N. Justin |
author_facet | How, Martin J. Norman, Mark D. Finn, Julian Chung, Wen-Sung Marshall, N. Justin |
author_sort | How, Martin J. |
collection | PubMed |
description | Cephalopods are unrivaled in the natural world in their ability to alter their visual appearance. These mollusks have evolved a complex system of dermal units under neural, hormonal, and muscular control to produce an astonishing variety of body patterns. With parallels to the pixels on a television screen, cephalopod chromatophores can be coordinated to produce dramatic, dynamic, and rhythmic displays, defined collectively here as “dynamic patterns.” This study examines the nature, context, and potential functions of dynamic patterns across diverse cephalopod taxa. Examples are presented for 21 species, including 11 previously unreported in the scientific literature. These range from simple flashing or flickering patterns, to highly complex passing wave patterns involving multiple skin fields. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-5474490 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2017 |
publisher | Frontiers Media S.A. |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-54744902017-07-03 Dynamic Skin Patterns in Cephalopods How, Martin J. Norman, Mark D. Finn, Julian Chung, Wen-Sung Marshall, N. Justin Front Physiol Physiology Cephalopods are unrivaled in the natural world in their ability to alter their visual appearance. These mollusks have evolved a complex system of dermal units under neural, hormonal, and muscular control to produce an astonishing variety of body patterns. With parallels to the pixels on a television screen, cephalopod chromatophores can be coordinated to produce dramatic, dynamic, and rhythmic displays, defined collectively here as “dynamic patterns.” This study examines the nature, context, and potential functions of dynamic patterns across diverse cephalopod taxa. Examples are presented for 21 species, including 11 previously unreported in the scientific literature. These range from simple flashing or flickering patterns, to highly complex passing wave patterns involving multiple skin fields. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-06-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5474490/ /pubmed/28674500 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2017.00393 Text en Copyright © 2017 How, Norman, Finn, Chung and Marshall. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Physiology How, Martin J. Norman, Mark D. Finn, Julian Chung, Wen-Sung Marshall, N. Justin Dynamic Skin Patterns in Cephalopods |
title | Dynamic Skin Patterns in Cephalopods |
title_full | Dynamic Skin Patterns in Cephalopods |
title_fullStr | Dynamic Skin Patterns in Cephalopods |
title_full_unstemmed | Dynamic Skin Patterns in Cephalopods |
title_short | Dynamic Skin Patterns in Cephalopods |
title_sort | dynamic skin patterns in cephalopods |
topic | Physiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5474490/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28674500 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2017.00393 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT howmartinj dynamicskinpatternsincephalopods AT normanmarkd dynamicskinpatternsincephalopods AT finnjulian dynamicskinpatternsincephalopods AT chungwensung dynamicskinpatternsincephalopods AT marshallnjustin dynamicskinpatternsincephalopods |