Conspicuous body colours and colour polymorphism have been hypothesized to increase
rates of speciation. Conspicuous colours are evolutionary labile, and often involved in …

Conspicuous body colours and colour polymorphism have been hypothesized to increase
rates of speciation. Conspicuous colours are evolutionary labile, and often involved in …

Color polymorphism—two or more heritable color phenotypes maintained within a single
breeding population—is an extreme type of intraspecific diversity widespread across the tree …

Sexual selection has been invoked as a major force in the evolution of secondary sexual
traits, including sexually dimorphic colorations. For example, previous studies have shown …

Sexual selection has been invoked as a major force in the evolution of secondary sexual
traits, including sexually dimorphic colourations. For example, previous studies have shown …

Sexual selection has been invoked as a major force in the evolution of secondary sexual
traits, including sexually dimorphic colourations. For example, previous studies have shown …

Color polymorphisms are common in lizards, which provide an excellent model system to
study their evolution and adaptive function. The lacertid genus Podarcis is particularly …

Heritable variation is the fuel for adaptive evolution, and the processes that generate and
maintain it have been the focus of intense interest since the inception of modern …

Long‐term maintenance of colour polymorphisms often depends on the interplay of multiple
selective forces. In the common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis), up to three pure and two …

Colour polymorphisms, the coexistence of two or more colour morphs of a species within a
population, have long fascinated evolutionary biologists interested in the mechanisms …