Science Daily October 18, 2018
Among all animals, cuttlefish, squid and octopuses control their appearance by the direct action of neurons onto expandable pixels, numbered in millions, located in their skin. Researchers in Germany peered into the brain of the cuttlefish and its camouflage control system. They derived minimal rules that may explain skin morphogenesis. They found that chromatophores (specialized skin cells) systematically change colors over time. The study opens a large range of new questions and opportunities in field of cognitive computational neuroscience; help define the precise link between brain activity and behavior and help identify the cellular rules of development involved in tissue morphogenesis… read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLEÂ
A common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis). Credit: MPI for Brain Research / Stephan Junek