ambicoloration

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Ambicoloration refers to an abnormal development of color or pigmentation on the normally whitish, eyeless side of flatfish belonging to the families Pleuronectidae and Soleidae. This condition is described as exhibiting ambicoloration. The term is derived from the prefix "ambi-" meaning both, and "coloration". This biological phenomenon is distinct from laterality in humans, which relates to the specialized functioning of brain hemispheres and the sides of the body they control, such as handedness.123

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…more common colour variation is ambicoloration (coloration on both sides). Ambicoloration can be partial or complete and is often associated with incomplete migration of the eye (in which the migrating eye stops on middorsal ridge) and a hooked appearance, caused by the unattached origin of the dorsal fin. Reversal (eyes…
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…more common colour variation is ambicoloration (coloration on both sides). Ambicoloration can be partial or complete and is often associated with incomplete migration of the eye (in which the migrating eye stops on middorsal ridge) and a hooked appearance, caused by the unattached origin of the dorsal fin. Reversal (eyes…
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