In other species: goldfish , rainbow trout , guppy , swordtail and platyfish , Nile tilapia , gilthead seabream , barramundi perch , green and golden bell frog , common lizard , Mallard , sheepshead swordtail , Garter snake , bark anole , Guadeloupean anole , , sailfin molly , ball python , 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 , southern flounder , Siamese fighting fish , leopard coralgrouper , White's rock-skink , , starry flounder , delicate skink , red-top cobalt mbuna , yellowband tropheus , Sagus Kul lizard , , Oujiang color common carp , poison dart frogs , pumpkin toadlet , Blue Regal "Mbenji" Peacock

Categories: Pigmentation phene

Mendelian trait/disorder: unknown

Disease-related: no

Species-specific description: Lu et al. (2024) "unveil the association between distinct skin colorations and varying levels of carotenoid and pteridine pigments. The red coloration in males is determined by a genomic region on chromosome 14, housing four pigmentation genes: BCO2 and three 6-pyruvoyltetrahydropterin synthases. ... . Additionally, the gene MAP7 on chromosome 2 emerges as a potential contributor to the blue coloration in subadults and adult females. Sex-specific expression patterns point to steroid hormone-associated genes (SULT2B1 and SRD5A2) as potential upstream regulators influencing sexually dimorphic coloration."