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    Zebrafish adult pigment stem cells are multipotent and form pigment cells by a progressive fate restriction process
    with Robert N. Kelsh, Karen C. Sosa, and Jennifer P. Owen
    Bioessays 39 (3): 1600234. 2017.
    Skin pigment pattern formation is a paradigmatic example of pattern formation. In zebrafish, the adult body stripes are generated by coordinated rearrangement of three distinct pigment cell‐types, black melanocytes, shiny iridophores and yellow xanthophores. A stem cell origin of melanocytes and iridophores has been proposed although the potency of those stem cells has remained unclear. Xanthophores, however, seemed to originate predominantly from proliferation of embryonic xanthophores. Now, da…Read more