The process of changing the color pigment of their skin relies on a single highly developed chromatophore cell and many muscles, nerves, glail and sheath cells.
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:: So the chromatophore's themselves have some sort of color-sensitive receptor ? ? talk ) 13 : 01, 12 May 2010 ( UTC)
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Potential military applications of chromatophore-mediated colour changes have been proposed, mainly as a type of active camouflage, which could as in cuttlefish make objects nearly invisible.
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Fish, reptiles and amphibians have lots of different types of chromatophore that can make black, brown, yellow, red, orange blue, red, silver colours.
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Is there a chemical reason why there could not be chromatophore bacteria that use the right pigments to achieve the same level of crypsis as chameleons, if not better?
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The generic name is for the nymph antennae, is grey to brown in colour, and has black spots ( each one a chromatophore ) on all its body surfaces.
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The cephalopod chromatophore has all its pigment grains in a small elastic sac, which can be stretched or allowed to relax under the control of the brain to vary its opacity.
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For this reason, and because the large number and contrasting colour of the cells usually make them very easy to visualise, melanophores are by far the most widely studied chromatophore.
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Moving wave patterns on the skin of cephalopods can be simulated with a two-state, two-dimensional cellular automata, each state corresponding to either an expanded or retracted chromatophore.
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As the other biochromatic chromatophores are also capable of pigment translocation, animals with multiple chromatophore types can generate a spectacular array of skin colours by making good use of the divisional effect.
