Johann Ukrow

2 months ago | biorxiv.org | Johann Ukrow |Mathieu Renard |Gilles Laurent |Mahyar Moghimi

AbstractCephalopod chromatophores are small dermal neuromuscular organs, each consisting of a pigment-containing cell and 10-20 surrounding radial muscles. Their expansions and contractions, controlled and coordinated by the brain, are used to modify the animal’s appearance during camouflaging and signaling. Building up on tools developed by this lab, we propose a flexible computational pipeline to track and analyze chromatophore dynamics from high-resolution videos of behaving cephalopods.