The brown anole dewlap revisited: do predation pressure, sexual selection, and species recognition shape among-population signal diversity?

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Zoological Science

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Introduction

Materials and Methods

Animals

Dewlap measurements

Dewlap size

Dewlap pattern

Dewlap colour

Display behaviour

Selection proxies

Predation pressure

Sexual selection

Species recognition

Statistics

Results

Discussion

Conclusion

Supplemental Information

Islands of study.

Sampling locations of the populations of study across the Caribbean (figure and exact geographic coordinates).

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4722/supp-1

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Simon Baeckens performed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Tess Driessens conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Raoul Van Damme conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Animal Ethics

The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e. approving body and any reference numbers):

The Ethical Committee for Animal Testing at the University of Antwerp approved protocols for the use of live animals in this study.

Field Study Permissions

The following information was supplied relating to field study approvals (i.e. approving body and any reference numbers):

Field experiments were approved by the local environmental agencies (The Bahamas Environment, Science & Technology Commission; The Ministry of The Environment and Housing; Department of Environment Cayman Islands; Centre for Marine Science, University of the West Indies Jamaica).

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The raw data are included in Tables 13.

Funding

This research was financed by the Research Fund Flanders (FWO) awarded to Tess Driessens. Simon Baeckens is a postdoctoral fellow supported by the Belgian American Education Foundation (B.A.E.F.). Additional expenses for field missions were provided by Leopold III fund and the University of Antwerp (DOCOP). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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