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Multiple Pigment Cell Types Contribute to the Black, Blue, and Orange Ornaments of Male Guppies (Poecilia reticulata)

  • Verena A. Kottler ,

    * E-mail: verena.kottler@tuebingen.mpg.de (VAK); christine.dreyer@tuebingen.mpg.de (CD)

    Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

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  • Iris Koch,

    Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

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  • Matthias Flötenmeyer,

    Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

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  • Hisashi Hashimoto,

    Affiliation Bioscience and Biotechnology Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

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  • Detlef Weigel,

    Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

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  • Christine Dreyer

    * E-mail: verena.kottler@tuebingen.mpg.de (VAK); christine.dreyer@tuebingen.mpg.de (CD)

    Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

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Multiple Pigment Cell Types Contribute to the Black, Blue, and Orange Ornaments of Male Guppies (Poecilia reticulata)

  • Verena A. Kottler, 
  • Iris Koch, 
  • Matthias Flötenmeyer, 
  • Hisashi Hashimoto, 
  • Detlef Weigel, 
  • Christine Dreyer
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  • Published: January 22, 2014
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0085647
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