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Definitions of melanophore in various dictionaries:
A pigment cell that contains melanin, especially as found in the skin of amphibians and reptiles.
MELANOPHORE - Chromatophores are pigment-containing and light-reflecting cells, or groups of cells, found in a wide range of animals including amphibians, fish, re...
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| A pigment cell that contains melanin, especially as found in the skin of amphibians and reptiles. |
| Medical bDefinitionb of bMELANOPHOREb. : a chromatophore especially of fishes, amphibians, and reptiles that contains melanin : a black or brown pigment cell. |
| A cell containing melanin especially such a cell in reptiles, amphibians, and fishes which is contractile and confers the ability to change the depth of colour. |
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| Chromatophores are pigment-containing and light-reflecting cells, or groups of cells, found in a wide range of animals including amphibians, fish, reptiles, crustaceans and cephalopods. Mammals and birds, in contrast, have a class of cells called melanocytes for coloration. * Chromatophores are largely responsible for generating skin and eye colour in ectothermic animals and are generated in the neural crest during embryonic development. Mature chromatophores are grouped into subclasses based on their colour (more properly "hue") under white light: xanthophores (yellow), erythrophores (red), iridophores (reflective / iridescent), leucophores (white), melanophores (black/brown), and cyanophores (blue).* Some species can rapidly change colour through mechanisms that translocate pigment and reorient reflective plates within chromatophores. This process, often used as a type of camouflage, is called physiological colour change or metachrosis. Cephalopods such as the octopus have complex chromatophore organs controlled by muscles to achieve this, whereas vertebrates such as chameleons generate a similar effect by cell signalling. Such signals can be hormones or neurotransmitters and may be initiated by changes in mood, temperature, stress or visible changes in the local environment. Chromatophores are studied by scientists to understand human disease and as a tool in drug discovery. |