In other species: goldfish , rainbow trout , guppy , swordtail and platyfish , Nile tilapia , gilthead seabream , barramundi perch , green and golden bell frog , northern leopard frog , painted turtle , common lizard , Mallard , domestic goose , Chinese soft-shelled turtle , sheepshead swordtail , Garter snake , bark anole , Guadeloupean anole , ornate tree lizard , sailfin molly , ball python , Frogs and toads , Midas cichlid , blacktip shark , common wall lizard , Italian wall lizard , three-spined stickleback , blue discus , Sand lizard , common chameleon , flapneck chameleon , mimic poison frog , Asian bonytongue , eastern dwarf tree frog , Erhard's wall lizard , southern flounder , red-backed salamander , Siamese fighting fish , leopard coralgrouper , White's rock-skink , sea chub , starry flounder , large yellow croaker , ornate chorus frog , tongue sole , delicate skink , northern cricket frog , red-top cobalt mbuna , yellowband tropheus , Sagus Kul lizard , toad-headed agama , Guianan toad-headed agama , red tilapia , Oujiang color common carp , poison dart frogs , Koi , slender anole , pumpkin toadlet , Blue Regal "Mbenji" Peacock

Categories: Pigmentation phene , Integument (skin) phene

Single-gene trait/disorder: yes

Mode of inheritance: Autosomal

Disease-related: no

Key variant known: no

Inheritance: Pirani et al. (2025) "studied the dewlap of the slender anole (Anolis apletophallus) which exhibits a dewlap polymorphism: males have either an entirely orange dewlap ("solid" morph) or a white dewlap with a basal orange spot ("bicolor" morph). ... [The authors] findings indicate that the slender anole dewlap polymorphism is best explained as an autosomal, single-locus, Mendelian trait with the solid morph allele dominant to the bicolor morph allele." 

Mapping: Pirani et al. (2025) "identified a region strongly associated with this [dewlap] trait and within this region [the authors] identified a promising candidate locus-the transcription factor single-minded 1 (SIM1)-that may underly the dewlap polymorphism."