Color formation in lacertidae

MARTEN VAN DEN BERG, MICHAEL KRONIGER & MIKE ZAWADZKI, March 2016

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Summary:
Presentation held at the annual meeting of the DGHT-AG Lacertiden in Gersfeld/Rhön (Germany), from the 11th till the 13th of March 2016. A hypothesis concerning color formation on a cellular level for lacertid lizards, based on recent research on other lizards, is shown.

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Authors: Marten van den Berg (E-Mail: martenvdberg@tiscali.nl), Michael Kroniger and Mike Zawadzki.