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Morph-specific protein patterns in the femoral gland secretions of a colour polymorphic lizard.
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- Common wall lizards learn familiar-unfamiliar identity of conspecifics through chemical cues.Learning & behavior · 2025Article
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- Carbonic anhydrase IV in lizard chemical signals.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Protein-lipid Association in Lizard Chemical Signals.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- Functional Protein Composition in Femoral Glands of Sand Lizards (Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Viability, behavior, and color expression in the offspring of matings between common wall lizardCurrent zoology · 2022Article
- No evidence for differential sociosexual behavior and space use in the color morphs of the European common wall lizard (Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Morph-specific seasonal variation of aggressive behaviour in a polymorphic lizard species.PeerJ · 2020Article
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- Seasonal Variations in Femoral Gland Secretions Reveals some Unexpected Correlations Between Protein and Lipid Components in a Lacertid Lizard.Journal of chemical ecology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Colour polymorphism occurs when two or more genetically-based colour morphs permanently coexist within an interbreeding population. Colouration is usually associated to other life-history traits (ecological, physiological, behavioural, reproductive …) of the bearer, thus being the phenotypic marker of such set of genetic features. This visual badge may be used to inform conspecifics and to drive those decision making processes which may contribute maintaining colour polymorphism under sexual selection context. The importance of such information suggests that other communication modalities should be recruited to ensure its transfer in case visual cues were insufficient. Here, for the first time, we investigated the potential role of proteins from femoral gland secretions in signalling colour morph in a polymorphic lizard. As proteins are thought to convey identity-related information, they represent the ideal cues to build up the chemical modality used to badge colour morphs. We found strong evidence for the occurrence of morph-specific protein profiles in the three main colour-morphs of the common wall lizard, which showed both qualitative and quantitative differences in protein expression. As lizards are able to detect proteins by tongue-flicking and vomeronasal organ, this result support the hypothesis that colour polymorphic lizards may use a multimodal signal to inform about colour-morph.
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