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What does metachrosis mean?

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Noun
  1. (zoology) The ability to change colour by the expansion and contraction of chromatophores
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Political parties in their mood of subtle metachrosis are changing their public face.
Like some other cephalopods, bigfin reef squids are capable of metachrosis – rapidly changing body colouration and patterns through voluntary control of chromatophores.
Color changing or metachromatism or metachrosis is common in chordates and in vertebrates such as fish, amphibians and in some types of lizards.
Our data also emphasize the dual neural and endocrine character of metachrosis in the Ambystoma larva.
This process, often used as a type of camouflage, is called physiological colour change or metachrosis.
The voluntary control of chromatophores is known as metachrosis.

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