Back to basics: using colour polymorphisms to study evolutionary processes.

Abstract excerpt

Here, I suggest that colour polymorphic study systems have been underutilized to answer general questions about evolutionary processes, such as morph frequency dynamics between generations and population divergence in morph frequencies. Colour polymorphisms can be used to study fundamental evolutionary processes like frequency-dependent selection, gene flow, recombination and correlational selection for adaptive...

Topics

• Animals
• Biological Evolution
• Gene Flow
• Genetics, Population
• Phenotype
• Pigmentation
• Polymorphism, Genetic