Formation of periodic pigment spots by the reaction-diffusion mechanism
B. Ding, E. L. Patterson, S. Holalu, J. Li, G. A. Johnson, L. E. Stanley, A. B. Greenlee, F. Peng, H. D. Bradshaw, B. K. Blackman, Y.-W. Yuan
The paper identifies an R2R3-MYB activator and an R3-MYB repressor in monkeyflowers that fit Turing's reaction-diffusion model and explain periodic pigment spot formation.
bioRxiv · Aug 30, 2018Plant Biology