| Abstract: |
| It is said that cuttlefish can camouflage and communicate with others by changing the body patterns rapidly. Such a dynamic pattern formation would be realized by spacially non-uniformed contractions of muscles around pigment cells on their body surface controlled by nervous system.
A detalied control mechanism on the dynamic pattern formation, however, had not been disussed due to a difficulty of experiments with cuttlefish, and especially it remains to be unclear about the relationship between neurotransmitter and contractions of muscles. The purpose of this study is to indicate a plausible mechanism for dynamic pattern formation in cuttlefish by capturing several factors and modeling the mutual interaction between these factors. |
|