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Skin colour Common Wall Lizard

peer reviewed

Offspring odds

No numbers for this one.

No inheritance mode has been recorded for Skin colour, so no offspring odds are given. Guessing one would be worse than saying nothing: a breeder would plan a season on it.

What this rests on

A peer-reviewed paper identifies the variant behind this morph.

  • Physiological phenotypes differ among color morphs in introduced common wall lizards (Podarcis muralis).Integr Zool 2024
  • Adaptive introgression reveals the genetic basis of a sexually selected syndrome in wall lizards.Sci Adv 2024
  • The role of historical biogeography in shaping colour morph diversity in the common wall lizard.Mol Ecol 2024
  • Sexual color ornamentation, microhabitat choice, and thermal physiology in the common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis).J Exp Zool A Ecol Integr Physiol 2024
  • Colour morphs as alternative solutions to the trade-off predicted by the immuno-competence handicap hypothesis.Integr Zool 2025
  • Thermal stability of pigment- and structurally based body coloration in a polymorphic lizard.J Therm Biol 2025
  • Adaptive spread of a sexually selected syndrome eliminates an ancient color polymorphism in wall lizards.Science 2026
  • More than meets the (human) eye: Cryptic chromatic diversity in a colour polymorphic lizard : Cryptic polymorphism in lacertid lizards.Naturwissenschaften 2026
  • Saving water to survive: Alternative water loss strategies could explain color polymorphism maintenance in a lacertid lizard.Integr Zool 2026

Entry in Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals

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