Turing’s ideas explain how some animal patterns arise. A spot-maker is the most basic version of Turing patterning. It involves two key substances, or morphogens, as Turing called them, that can move ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spots, stripes and more: Working out the logic of animal patterns There's a reason fashion designers look to animal prints for ...

Patterns on animal skin, such as zebra stripes and poison frog color patches, serve various biological functions, including temperature regulation, camouflage and warning signals. The colors making up ...