Amphibians, and especially the anurans (frogs and toads), exhibit a greater diversity of reproductive modes than other tetrapod vertebrates. Twenty-nine reproductive modes have …
TU Grafe, D Preininger, M Sztatecsny, R Kasah… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
High background noise is an impediment to signal detection and perception. We report the use of multiple solutions to improve signal perception in the acoustic and visual modality by …
The adults of several anuran amphibian species deposit their eggs externally in mucus secretions that are purposely aerated to produce a froth nest. This type of clutch structure …
KD Angielczyk, L Schmitz - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Nocturnality is widespread among extant mammals and often considered the ancestral behavioural pattern for all mammals. However, mammals are nested within a larger clade …
In multimodal communication, individuals use several sensory modalities for information transfer. We report on novel observations of foot‐flagging in the Bornean ranid frog Staurois …
Social behavior of Hypsiboas albomarginatus was studied in the Atlantic rain forest, Municipality of Ubatuba, in the north coast of the State of São Paulo, southeastern Brazil …
RC Bell, GN Webster, MJ Whiting - Journal of Evolutionary …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Dynamic sexual dichromatism is a temporary colour change between the sexes and has evolved independently in a wide range of anurans, many of which are explosive breeders …
AE Brunetti, GN Hermida, MC Luna… - Biological Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We describe the structure and histochemistry of mental and lateral glands in a representative array of 28 species of five genera of the Neotropical hylid frog tribe …
P Narvaes, MT Rodrigues - Phyllomedusa: Journal of Herpetology, 2005 - revistas.usp.br
We studied the signaling, reproductive and courtship behaviors of the diurnal stream- dwelling frog Hylodes dactylocinus. The repertoire of visual signals of H. dactylocinus …