Billy Ocean may not have been thinking of fish when he wrote “The Color of Love”, but biologists were able to show that zebrafish males and females both wear their brightest colors while wooing a mate ...

The ability of some animals to dynamically change color to match the brightness of their surroundings is one of nature's great survival tools, allowing flatfish to blend into sandy seabeds, frogs to ...

The zebrafish, a small fresh water fish, owes its name to a striking pattern of blue stripes alternating with golden stripes. Three major pigment cell types, black cells, reflective silvery cells, and ...

Zebrafish are increasingly used in neurobiological and behavioral studies. Possible stimuli to manipulate zebrafish behavior are being investigated. The presentation of colors appears to be one of the ...

Skin is a mosaic of millions of cells, shifting and transforming as we scrub, scrape, and, yes, suffer injuries. But because those tiles all pretty much look exactly the same, it’s hard to tell what ...

Our series, Animals in Research, profiles the top organisms used for science experimentation. Here, we look at Danio rerio - the zebrafish. Zebrafish are probably not the first creatures that come to ...