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ArticleCurrent zoology2024

Temporal stability and directional change in a color cline of a marine snail from NW Spain.

Juan Gefaell, Ramón Vigo, A Honorato González-Vázquez, Juan Galindo, Emilio Rolán-Alvarez

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Article in Current zoology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Cryptic Ontogenetic Changes in the Ventral Coloration of a Color Polymorphic Wall Lizard (Podarcis muralis).Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology · 2026
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5 authors.

Juan GefaellCentro de Investigación Mariña, Universidade de Vigo, Departamento de Bioquímica, Genética e Inmunología, 36310 Vigo, Spain.
Ramón VigoCentro de Investigación Mariña, Universidade de Vigo, Departamento de Bioquímica, Genética e Inmunología, 36310 Vigo, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5971-9330
A Honorato González-VázquezCentro de Investigación Mariña, Universidade de Vigo, Departamento de Bioquímica, Genética e Inmunología, 36310 Vigo, Spain.
Juan GalindoCentro de Investigación Mariña, Universidade de Vigo, Departamento de Bioquímica, Genética e Inmunología, 36310 Vigo, Spain.
Emilio Rolán-AlvarezCentro de Investigación Mariña, Universidade de Vigo, Departamento de Bioquímica, Genética e Inmunología, 36310 Vigo, Spain.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The evolution and maintenance of color clines is a classic topic of research in evolutionary ecology. However, studies analyzing the temporal dynamics of such clines are much less frequent, due to the difficulty of obtaining reliable data about past color distributions along environmental gradients. In this article, we describe a case of decades-long temporal stability and directional change in a color cline of the marine snail

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clinal variationcolor polymorphismecological gradientLittorina saxatilisnatural selectionwave exposure

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PMID38726245
PMCPMC11078050

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