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SUBMITTER: Whiting MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9094656 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Whiting Martin J MJ Holland Brenden S BS Keogh J Scott JS Noble Daniel W A DWA Rankin Katrina J KJ Stuart-Fox Devi D
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Conspicuous social and sexual signals are predicted to experience pronounced character release when natural selection via predation is relaxed. However, we have few good examples of this phenomenon in the wild and none in species with dynamic color change. Here, we show that Jackson's chameleons inadvertently introduced from Kenya to Hawaii (Oahu), where there are no coevolved, native lizard predators, experienced pronounced character release of color signals. Hawaiian chameleons displayed more ...[more]