Evolution of island lizards remains a mystery

Elife. 2020 Sep 22:9:e62230. doi: 10.7554/eLife.62230.

Abstract

Lizards that live in the Greater Antilles exploit a large range of skeletal variations to adapt to similar habitats, in defiance of the theory of plasticity-led evolution.

Keywords: Anolis sp.; adaptation; developmental bias; evolution; evolutionary biology; morphometrics; plasticity.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Biological Evolution
  • Caribbean Region
  • Ecosystem
  • Lizards*