论文标题
数学与鱼类的图案有什么关系?
What's math got to do with patterns in fish?
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论文摘要
当您想到鱼时,想到什么?也许您会想到宠物金鱼,多里(Dory)或尼莫(Nemo)等电影人物或当地河中的鳟鱼。所有这些鱼的共同点之一是皮肤中的图案。 Nemo在他的橙色皮肤上运动黑色和白色条纹,鳟鱼有斑点。即使是金鱼也有一个图案 - 只是纯金(有点无聊)。为什么有些鱼有条纹,有些有斑点,而另一些则具有普通的图案?事实证明,这是一个棘手的问题,因此科学家需要几个主题的工具来回答它。在本文中,我们使用生物学,数学和计算机编码来帮助弄清鱼类如何获得不同的皮肤图案。
When you think of fish, what comes to mind? Maybe you think of pet goldfish, movie characters like Dory or Nemo, or trout in a local river. One of the things that all of these fish have in common is patterns in their skin. Nemo sports black and white stripes in his orange skin, and trout have spots. Even goldfish have a pattern -- it's just plain gold (and kinda boring). Why do some fish have stripes, others have spots, and others have plain patterns? It turns out that this is a tricky question, so scientists need tools from several subjects to answer it. In this paper, we use biology, math, and computer coding to help figure out how fish get different skin patterns.