Piecing the barcoding puzzle of Palearctic water frogs (Pelophylax) sheds light on amphibian biogeography and global invasions

C Dufresnes, B Monod‐Broca, A Bellati… - Global Change …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Palearctic water frogs (genus Pelophylax) are an outstanding model in ecology and
evolution, being widespread, speciose, either threatened or threatening to other species …

[PDF][PDF] Alien fish, amphibian and reptile species in Romania and their invasive status: a review with new data

A Iftime, O Iftime - Travaux du Muséum National d'Histoire …, 2021‏ - travaux.pensoft.net
The paper presents a review of literature data, supplemented with original observations, on
the presence, establishment, distribution and invasive status of alien fish, amphibian and …

Invasion genetics of marsh frogs (Pelophylax ridibundus sensu lato) in Switzerland

C Dufresnes, J Leuenberger, V Amrhein… - Biological Journal of …, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
The marsh frog (Pelophylax ridibundus sl) is the number one amphibian invader in Western
Europe. In Switzerland, marsh frogs were introduced in the 1950–1960s and progressively …

Functional and temporal facets of predation by marsh frogs across the aquatic–terrestrial ecotone of ponds and implications in the context of biological invasions

F Pille, L Pinto, M Denoël - Freshwater Biology, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater vertebrate predators can exert trophic control over aquatic and littoral
communities. Among these predators, post‐metamorphic anurans exhibit a biphasic trophic …

Genome elimination from the germline cells in diploid and triploid male water frogs Pelophylax esculentus

M Chmielewska, M Kaźmierczak… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Hybridogenesis is a hemiclonal reproductive strategy in diploid and triploid hybrids. Our
study model is a frog P. esculentus (diploid RL and triploids RLL and RRL), a natural hybrid …

[PDF][PDF] A record of alien Pelophylax species and widespread mitochondrial DNA transfer in Kaliningradskaya Oblast'(the Baltic coast, Russia)

SN Litvinchuk, AY Ivanov, SA Lukonina… - BioInvasions …, 2020‏ - researchgate.net
Alien species can strongly impact local environments and compete against native species,
which can lead to their extinction. Marsh frogs of the Pelophylax ridibundus complex are one …

Detection of Glacial Refugia and Post-Glacial Colonization Routes of Morphologically Cryptic Marsh Frog Species (Anura: Ranidae: Pelophylax) Using Environmental …

SN Litvinchuk, DV Skorinov, AY Ivanov, OA Ermakov - Diversity, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
Studying the distribution of morphologically cryptic animal species is always a very difficult
task. Because most marsh frog species (the Pelophylax ridibundus complex) are cryptic, we …

Genetic structure, morphological variation, and gametogenic peculiarities in water frogs (Pelophylax) from northeastern European Russia

AO Svinin, DV Dedukh, LJ Borkin… - Journal of Zoological …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
The edible frog, Pelophylax esculentus, is a hybrid form that reproduces via clonal
propagation of only one of the parental genomes through generations of hybrids while the …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative mitochondrial phylogeography of water frogs (Ranidae: Pelophylax spp.) from the southwestern Balkans

P Papežík, P Mikulíček… - Vertebrate …, 2023‏ - vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com
The genus Pelophylax (water frogs) includes relatively common, widely distributed, and
even invasive species, but also endemic taxa with small ranges and limited knowledge …

The programmed DNA elimination and formation of micronuclei in germ line cells of the natural hybridogenetic water frog Pelophylax esculentus

M Chmielewska, D Dedukh, K Haczkiewicz… - Scientific reports, 2018‏ - nature.com
DNA elimination is a radical form of gene silencing and occurs both in somatic and germ
cells. The programmed DNA elimination occurs during gametogenesis in interspecies …