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Diversity of iris coloration during evolution of geckos (Gekkota)
Ozerskyi, Serhii ; Brejcha, Jindřich (advisor) ; Šmíd, Jiří (referee)
Iris is an anatomical structure that performs the function of a diaphragm in the visual system of the eye. It usually occupies most of the visible part of the eye. In addition to the main function - not to let light pass by the pupil, iris can play many different roles due to the great variability of its coloration. Iris can be part of a camouflage or aposematic color, play a different role in intra- or interspecific communication. In some species, its color changes depending on age, season, biological cycles, or even quickly become marked in response to stimuli. Geckos (Gekkota) are distinguished by a particularly large variety of iris color. And in many of them, the iris pattern resembles branching veins. What significance and evolution history this pattern has is of interest. I used various models of evolutionary reconstruction in the R program to study the evolution of veined pattern of coloration of the iris, as well as phylogenetic comparative methods and binary character evolution model to identify its connections with the fusion of life and the contrast in brightness between the eye and the eye ring. It was revealed that the veined pattern is an ancestral condition for geckos and is present in most modern species. Most precisely, the evolution of the vein pattern is described by all rates different...
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