In the study, the researchers quantified the color brightness of reptiles through image analysis ... insights into how species might react to changing environmental conditions.

“However, we also found that A. porcatus and (the eastern Cuba green anole) are geographically isolated, genetically ...

whereas other populations contain more-familiar color morphs that have alternating dark and light patches or stripes. The key to this apparent melanistic adaptation, the authors of the study suggest, ...