OMIA:001607-141976 : Skin colour in Plethodon cinereus (red-backed salamander)

In other species: spiny dogfish , goldfish , rainbow trout , guppy , swordtail and platyfish , Japanese medaka , 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 , anole , sheepshead swordtail , Garter snake , eastern nosquitofish , white cloud mountain minnow , bark anole , Guadeloupean anole , ornate tree lizard , American crocodile , sailfin molly , ball python , strawberry poison frog , Frogs and toads , fire salamander , 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 , Erhard's wall lizard , Chinese giant salamander , southern flounder , Siamese fighting fish , leopard coralgrouper , White's rock-skink , sea chub , starry flounder , sharpnose sevengill shark , 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 , Amur carp , Koi , slender anole , pumpkin toadlet , Blue Regal "Mbenji" Peacock , , oriental fire-bellied newt , eastern dwarf tree frog

Categories: Pigmentation phene , Integument (skin) phene

Single-gene trait/disorder: unknown

Disease-related: no

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Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2025). OMIA:001607-141976: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) [dataset]. https://omia.org/. https://doi.org/10.25910/2AMR-PV70

References

Note: the references are listed in reverse chronological order (from the most recent year to the earliest year), and alphabetically by first author within a year.

2025 Hantak, M.M., Brooks, O.L., Brooks, K.M., Anthony, C.D., Hickerson, C.M., Williams, K.A., Kuchta, S.R. :
Spatial variation in sexual size dimorphism and mating associations in the color polymorphic Eastern Red-Backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus). Oecologia 207:184, 2025. Pubmed reference: 41191103. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-025-05826-w.
McCormick, A., Riley, J.L. :
Integrating ecological and community science data to understand patterns of colour polymorphism and social behaviour at the northern range limit of a plethodontid salamander. PLoS One 20:e0332501, 2025. Pubmed reference: 40986515. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0332501.

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