Sentence examples for skin patterning from inspiring English sources

But it's not just the brain that controls the skin patterning, according to two studies in the Journal of Experimental Biology.

The early stages of chicken skin patterning involve a number of activatory and inhibitory molecular signals.

Scaleless (sc/sc) chickens carry a single recessive mutation that causes a lack of almost all body feathers, as well as foot scales and spurs, due to a failure of skin patterning during embryogenesis.

These experiments have begun to reveal the key pathways involved in chicken skin patterning, but genetic evidence implicating the specific molecules acting in these multi-component pathways is as yet lacking.

Aquatic Centre The Olympic pool is sheathed in a huge plastic skin, patterned on the structure like a soap bubble.

On a table in front of him was his cell phone, which had a mint-green skin patterned like a hundred-dollar bill.

But differences in skin patterns were often distinctive enough to provide useful additional information.

Silk patches were then applied to gauze to suggest the animals' skin patterns and also partly to conceal the two puppeteers inside each adult horse.

Vinther's study turns this process on its head: if you know the animal's skin patterns in great detail, what does this tell you about how it lived?

£25, missselfridge.com 6. Snake Snake print has knocked the spots off leopard of late, with many designers including Gucci and Preen experimenting with the serpent skin pattern.

Next is master of disguise Mystique: "ATP, TYR, MC1R, IRF4 and SLC24A4 are probably the first genes to be mutated to bring about the biggest difference in skin, hair and eyes," write the students, speculating that "her ability to alter skin patterns may be similar to that of cuttlefish or Japanese rice fish in terms of genes involved – such as SLC2A15 and PAX7A".