Iridophore apoptosis mediates socially-regulated developmental color pattern plasticity in an anemonefish

• Laurie J. Mitchell ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: laurie.mitchell@oist.jp

  Affiliation Marine Eco-Evo-Devo Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4967-4113

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• Saori Miura,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marine Eco-Evo-Devo Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan

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• Youjung Han,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marine Eco-Evo-Devo Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan

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• Jann Zwahlen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marine Eco-Evo-Devo Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan

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• Camille A. Sautereau,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Marine Eco-Evo-Devo Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan, CNRS IRL 2028 “Eco-Evo-Devo of Coral Reef Fish Life Cycle” (EARLY), Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna‑son, Okinawa, Japan, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Biologie Intégrative des Organismes Marins, BIOM, Observatoire océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France

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• Bruno Frédérich,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Evolutionary Ecology, FOCUS, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

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• Vincent Laudet

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Marine Eco-Evo-Devo Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan, CNRS IRL 2028 “Eco-Evo-Devo of Coral Reef Fish Life Cycle” (EARLY), Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna‑son, Okinawa, Japan, Marine Research Station, Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Yilan, Taiwan

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