The role of colours and colour patterns in behavioural ecology has been extensively studied
in a variety of contexts and taxa, while almost overlooked in many others. For decades …

Despite rising interest among scientists for over two centuries, parental care behavior has
not been as thoroughly studied in amphibians as it has in other taxa. The first reports of …

Many organisms have evolved adaptations to increase the odds of survival of their offspring.
Parental care has evolved several times in animals including ectotherms. In amphibians …

Many defended animals prevent attacks by displaying warning signals that are highly
conspicuous to their predators. We hypothesized that bioluminescing fireflies, widely known …

Individual reproductive success has several components, including the acquisition of mating
partners, offspring production, and offspring survival until adulthood. While the effects of …

Animals often show consistency in their behavioural repertoire across time and/or contexts
that differs from other individuals of the same population, ie animal personality. We currently …

Genome size varies greatly across the tree of life and transposable elements are an
important contributor to this variation. Among vertebrates, amphibians display the greatest …

Poison frogs of the superfamily Dendrobatoidea have fascinated researchers since the 19th
century, which is reflected in multiple studies on their natural history, taxonomy, toxicity …

The global wildlife trade is a multi-billion-dollar industry, that when poorly managed, can
threaten all major terrestrial taxa. Amphibians are currently the most threatened terrestrial …

Animals constantly need to evaluate available external and internal information to make
appropriate decisions. Identifying, assessing, and acting on relevant cues in contexts such …