{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["345(1)"],"submitter":["Abalos J"],"funding":["J.A. was supported by FPU15/01388 and a Margarita Salas MS21-053 (Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades). G.P.L. was supported by a FCT postdoctoral fellowship SFRH/BPD/94582/2013 (Fundaçao para a ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal) and a Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación IJC2018-035319-I (Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades). A.B. was supported by FPU18/04021. The study was supported in part by grant PID2019-104721GB-I00 of the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and grant AICO/2021/113 from the Conselleria d'Innovació, Universitats, Ciència i Societat Digital to EF and GPL, FEDER through the COMPETE program (ref. 008929), and by the Laboratoire d'Excellence (LABEX) TULIP (ANR-10-LABX-41) and the INTERREG POCTEFA ECTOPYR (EFA031/15)."],"pubmed_abstract":["Many animals undergo irreversible ontogenetic color changes (OCCs), yet these changes are often overlooked despite their potential ethological relevance. The problem is compounded when OCCs involve wavelengths invisible to humans. Wall lizards can perceive ultraviolet (UV) light, and their conspicuous ventral and ventrolateral coloration-including UV-reflecting patched-likely serves social communication. Here, we describe OCCs in the ventral (throat and belly) and ventrolateral (outer ventral scales, OVS) coloration of juvenile common wall lizards (Podarcis muralis) as perceived by conspecifics. We measured reflectance in hatchling and yearling lizards raised under semi-natural conditions and used visual modeling to estimate chromatic distances within individuals and across life stages (i."],"journal":["Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology"],"pagination":["39-57"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12705343"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Cryptic Ontogenetic Changes in the Ventral Coloration of a Color Polymorphic Wall Lizard (Podarcis muralis)."],"pmcid":["PMC12705343"],"pubmed_authors":["Bartolome A","Abalos J","de Lanuza GPI","Font E","Aubret F"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Cryptic Ontogenetic Changes in the Ventral Coloration of a Color Polymorphic Wall Lizard (Podarcis muralis).","description":"Many animals undergo irreversible ontogenetic color changes (OCCs), yet these changes are often overlooked despite their potential ethological relevance. The problem is compounded when OCCs involve wavelengths invisible to humans. Wall lizards can perceive ultraviolet (UV) light, and their conspicuous ventral and ventrolateral coloration-including UV-reflecting patched-likely serves social communication. Here, we describe OCCs in the ventral (throat and belly) and ventrolateral (outer ventral scales, OVS) coloration of juvenile common wall lizards (Podarcis muralis) as perceived by conspecifics. We measured reflectance in hatchling and yearling lizards raised under semi-natural conditions and used visual modeling to estimate chromatic distances within individuals and across life stages (i.","dates":{"release":"2026-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2026 Jan","modification":"2026-06-06T03:54:58.369Z","creation":"2026-05-25T03:11:58.398Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC12705343","cross_references":{"pubmed":["40999993"],"doi":["10.1002/jez.70035"]}}