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Pattern Formation

Lizard computer

Nature Physics volume 13, page 419 (2017) Cite this article

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Nature 544, 173–179 (2017)

Lizards and snakes — collectively known as squamates — often sport intriguing macroscopic skin patterns, resulting from the different colours exhibited by individual, microscopic skin cells. Changes in a squamate's skin pattern are due to interactions between skin cells, and are traditionally described in terms of reaction–diffusion systems involving nonlinear partial differential equations.

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Verberck, B. Lizard computer. Nature Phys 13, 419 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys4136

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