Sexual Dichromatism Drives Diversification Within a Major Radiation of African Amphibians
D. M. Portik, R. C. Bell, D. C. Blackburn, A. M. Bauer, C. D. Barratt, W. R. Branch, M. Burger, A. Channing, T. J. Colston, W. Conradie, J. M. Dehling, R. C. Drewes, R. Ernst, E. Greenbaum, V. Gvozdik, , J. A. McGuire
The paper investigates the evolutionary origins of sexual dichromatism in African reed frogs and finds that dichromatic lineages have double the diversification rate of monochromatic ones.
bioRxiv · Jul 22, 2018Evolutionary Biology