Phys. Rev. E 74, 011914 (2006) [8 pages]Two-stage Turing model for generating pigment patterns on the leopard and the jaguarReceived 9 May 2005; revised 12 March 2006; published 21 July 2006 Based on the results of phylogenetic analysis, which showed that flecks are the primitive pattern of the felid family and all other patterns including rosettes and blotches develop from it, we construct a Turing reaction-diffusion model which generates spot patterns initially. Starting from this spotted pattern, we successfully generate patterns of adult leopards and jaguars by tuning parameters of the model in the subsequent phase of patterning. © 2006 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.74.011914
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.74.011914
PACS:
87.10.+e, 47.54.−r, 82.40.Ck, 05.45.−a
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