PMC

Colour patches measured during male–male competition between veiled chameleons. (a,b) Interindividual variation in location of colour patches can be seen by comparing the location of colour patches in (a) to those in (b). Because exact locations of colour patches varied among individuals, we focused on similarly located colour patches of equivalent pigmentary and structural makeup. Descriptions of colour patches and relevant principal component loadings are located in the electronic supplementary material, table S4.

Colour fundus photographs depicting pigmentary changes at the macula in the right eye (a) and pigmentary changes, macular hole, and a shallow posterior pole detachment in the left eye (b).

Final congenital melanocytic naevus (CMN) colour is strongly associated with background pigmentary phenotype. A female patient with a bathing trunk CMN at (a) birth, (b) 3 years and (c) 11 years, and a male infant with a frontal scalp CMN at (d) birth, (e) 2 months and (f) 1 year, and later at (g–i) 10 years, demonstrating that the change in CMN colour was strongly correlated to the child's pigmentary phenotype, which is most noticeable in the hair colour.

Colour fundus photographs of the right (a) and the left (b) eyes respectively showing peripapillary pigmentary changes, pale optic disc, pigmentary stippling in the temporal region and generalized vascular attenuation in both eyes.