Two-stage Turing model for generating pigment patterns on the leopard and the jaguar

R. T. Liu, S. S. Liaw, and P. K. Maini
Phys. Rev. E 74, 011914 – Published 21 July 2006

Abstract

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.

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  • Received 9 May 2005

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.74.011914

©2006 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

R. T. Liu1, S. S. Liaw1, and P. K. Maini2

  • 1Department of Physics, National Chung-Hsing University, 250 Guo-Kuang Road, Taichung, Taiwan
  • 2Centre for Mathematical Biology, Mathematics Institute, Oxford University, 24-29 St. Giles’, Oxford OX1 3LB, United Kingdom

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Vol. 74, Iss. 1 — July 2006

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