Multiple color patches and parasites in Sceloporus occidentalis: differential relationships by sex and infection

Financial support was provided by Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (projects CGL2012-40026-C02-01 and CGL2015-67789-C2-1-P (MINECO/FEDER) to SM, and CGL2012-40026-C02-02 to JM, and grant numbers BES-2010-038427 and EEBB-I-14-08326 to RM-P). Ministerio de Educacion funded SR with FPU grant number AP-2009-1325 and EST13/00196. Permits for carrying out this investigation and collecting lizards were provided by the UCSC ethics committee (IACUC) and CDFG to RDC. Research at the UCSC was supported by an NSF grant to BS (EF-1241848).