術語: 術語辭彙的描述.


chromatophore

背景: 生理學.

A cell, usually found in skin but also elsewhere, that has intricate spider-weblike extensions. When the pigments spread out into the web, the skin darkens, and when the pigments withdraw into the center of the cell, the skin lightens. Most commonly, the pigments are brown (see melanophore), but they also occur in several other colors.

文獻

Barlow, George W. 2002. "The Cichlid Fishes (Nature's Grand Experiment in Evolution)". Perseus Publishing. 352. ISBN: 9780738203768 (crc03927) (摘要)

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