Selection for Social Signalling Drives the Evolution of Chameleon Colour Change

Devi Stuart-Fox; Adnan Moussalli

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060025

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Selection for Social Signalling Drives the Evolution of Chameleon Colour Change

Devi Stuart-Fox ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: devis@unimelb.edu.au

Affiliations School of Animal, Plant, and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa , Department of Zoology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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Adnan Moussalli

Affiliations School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa , Department of Sciences, Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
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Selection for Social Signalling Drives the Evolution of Chameleon Colour Change

Devi Stuart-Fox,
Adnan Moussalli

Published: January 29, 2008
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060025

About the Authors

Devi Stuart-Fox

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: devis@unimelb.edu.au

Affiliations School of Animal, Plant, and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa , Department of Zoology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Adnan Moussalli

Affiliations School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa , Department of Sciences, Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

DSF and AM did all field work and spectroradiometry, discussed the results, and fine-tuned the manuscript. AM did phylogenetic analysis of Genbank sequence data, and wrote a program automating visual modelling. DSF analysed spectral data, did comparative analysis, and wrote the paper.

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