ambicolorate

Such specimens have been called ambicolorate, but it is an important fact that they are also ambiarmate -- that is to say, the scales or tubercles which in the normal

Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897

Other explanations of the more frequent ambicolorate mutation are possible: the body may consist of two left sides instead of a left and right, joined on to a normal head.

Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897

In that case the adult condition would have been similar to that of ordinary ambicolorate specimens, but reversed, with eyes on the right side instead of the left.

Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897

If the absence of pigment from the lower side in normal Flat-fishes is due to the absence of light, how is it that the pigmentation persists on the lower side of ambicolorate specimens, which is no more exposed to light than in normal specimens?

Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897

The theory of sympathy or correlation might apply here since the lower side of the head was unpigmented, but from the small size of the specimen and the amount of pigment on the lower side, it seems to me most probable that if the specimen had lived to be adult the upper side would have developed pigment under the action of light and the specimen would have become ambicolorate.

Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897

My view is that the differentiation of these determinants for the two sides was due in the course of evolution to the different exposure to light, was of somatic origin, but once the congenital factors or determinants were in existence they were liable to mutation, and thus in the ambicolorate specimens there is a congenital tendency to pigmentation on the lower side, which would only be overcome by exclusion of light for another series of generations.

Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897