Concepts and contentions of coral snake resemblance: Batesian mimicry and its alternatives

AT Sena, S Ruane - Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Venomous coral snakes and non-venomous coral snake lookalikes are often regarded as a
classic example of Batesian mimicry, whereby a harmless or palatable organism imitates a …

[HTML][HTML] Piebaldism and chromatophore development in reptiles are linked to the tfec gene

A Garcia-Elfring, CE Sabin, AL Iouchmanov, HL Roffey… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Reptiles display great diversity in color and pattern, yet much of what we know about
vertebrate coloration comes from classic model species such as the mouse and zebrafish. 1 …

Population genetic differentiation and genomic signatures of adaptation to climate in an abundant lizard

M Ruiz Miñano, GM While, W Yang, CP Burridge… - Heredity, 2022 - nature.com
Species distributed across climatic gradients will typically experience spatial variation in
selection, but gene flow can prevent such selection from causing population genetic …

Lizards exploit the changing optics of developing chromatophore cells to switch defensive colors during ontogeny

G Zhang, VJ Yallapragada, T Halperin… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Many animals undergo changes in functional colors during development, requiring the
replacement of integument or pigment cells. A classic example of defensive color switching …

Reptile Dermatology

G Aguilar, MA Mitchell - Veterinary Clinics: Exotic Animal …, 2023 - vetexotic.theclinics.com
Diseases of the integument are common in both captive and wild reptiles. In a recent study,
the prevalence of dermatologic diseases in bearded dragons (Pogona vitticeps) presented …

On the role of TFEC in reptilian coloration

AC Tzika - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Reptilian species, particularly snakes and lizards, are emerging models of animal coloration.
Here, I focus on the role of the TFEC transcription factor in snake and lizard coloration based …

Stripes and loss of color in ball pythons (Python regius) are associated with variants affecting endothelin signaling

UM Dao, I Lederer, RL Tabor, B Shahid… - G3: Genes …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Color patterns in nonavian reptiles are beautifully diverse, but little is known about the
genetics and development of these patterns. Here, we investigated color patterning in pet …

A large deletion at the cortex locus eliminates butterfly wing patterning

JJ Hanly, L Livraghi, C Heryanto, WO McMillan… - G3, 2022 - academic.oup.com
As the genetic basis of natural and domesticated variation has been described in recent
years, a number of hotspot genes have been repeatedly identified as the targets of selection …

Characterization of the Leucistic Texas Rat Snake Pantherophis obsoletus

A Ullate-Agote, AC Tzika - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Albinism and leucism are phenotypes resulting from impaired melanin pigmentation in the
skin and skin appendages. However, melanin pigmentation of eyes remains unaffected in …

[PDF][PDF] Population Genomics of Variegated Toad-Headed Lizard Phrynocephalus versicolor and Its Adaptation to the Colorful Sand of the Gobi Desert

Y Jin, D Aguilar-Gómez, D YC Brandt… - Genome biology and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The variegated toad-headed agama, Phrynocephalus versicolor, lives in the arid landscape
of the Chinese Gobi Desert. We analyzed populations from three different locations which …