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SUMMARY: Special Seminar: Xitong Liang\, PhD (Peking University)
DESCRIPTION: Neural mechanisms of cephalopod camouflage
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <h3><span class="markjh5qbhafg" data-markjs="
 true" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">Neural mechanisms
  of cephalopod camouflage</span></h3><p><span class="markjh5qbhafg" data-ma
 rkjs="true" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb=""><img class=
 "alignright size-medium wp-image-23911" src="https://neuroscience.wustl.edu
 /app/uploads/2024/04/xitong-liang-240x300.jpeg" alt="Xitong Liang" width="2
 40" height="300" />Xitong</span> Liang\, PhD<br />Assistant Professor\, Sch
 ool of Life Sciences<br />Peking University<br />Beijing\, China</p><p><b>A
 bstract:</b></p><p>Cephalopods (e.g.\, octopus\, squid\, and cuttlefish) ha
 ve the remarkable ability to change their skin color and pattern within sec
 onds for camouflage or communication purposes\, by controlling the size of 
 millions of skin pigment cells called chromatophores. Our study tracked ove
 r 100\,000 chromatophores in behaving cuttlefish and revealed an explorator
 y and iterative approach to optimize their camouflage skin pattern through 
 visual estimation of the difference between their body and the background. 
 Furthermore\, we compared cuttlefish with another cephalopod species lackin
 g complex skin patterns and identified evolutionary divergence in the neura
 l circuit for skin pattern control between the two.</p>
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