Frogs are immediately associated to their conspicuous vocalizations emitted during the
breeding season. Therefore, many scientists were inspired to study their acoustic …

Vocalizations of anuran amphibians have received much attention in studies of behavioral
ecology and physiology, but also provide informative characters for identifying and …

Acoustic communication is crucial to humans and many other tetrapods, including birds,
frogs, crocodilians, and mammals. However, large-scale patterns in its evolution are largely …

Advertisement calls are often used as essential basic information in studies of animal
behaviour, ecology, evolution, conservation, taxonomy or biodiversity inventories. Yet the …

Glassfrogs (family: Centrolenidae) represent a fantastic radiation (~ 150 described species)
of Neotropical anurans that originated in South America and dispersed into Central America …

Interactions between species can affect the evolution of their sexual signals, receiver
selectivity, or both. One commonly expected outcome is reproductive character …

From literature data on 116 taxa crosses involving 46 species of frogs, we found a positive
correlation between degree of divergence (measured as Nei's genetic distance, D) and …

The first part of this synthesis summarizes the morphology of the jelly layers surrounding an
amphibian ovum. We propose a standard terminology and discuss the evolution of jelly …

An inverse relationship between body size and advertisement call frequency has been
found in several frog species. However, the generalizability of this relationship across …

Evolutionary divergence in behavioural traits related to mating may represent the initial
stage of speciation. Direct selective forces are usually invoked to explain divergence in mate …