Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

Amphibians have undergone important evolutionary transitions in reproductive modes and
life-cycles. We compare large-scale macroevolutionary patterns in these transitions across …

The accumulation of biodiversity in tropical forests can occur through multiple allopatric and
parapatric models of diversification, including forest refugia, riverine barriers and ecological …

Amphibian reproductive modes (RMs) have been extensively described and applied to
amphibian biology studies. However, due to new behavioural observations and past system …

This chapter reviews the diversity, evolutionary relationships, ecology, and conservation of
the Gulf of Guinea oceanic islands' endemic caecilian and anuran fauna. A total of nine …

Habitat is one of the most important factors sha** organismal morphology, but it may vary
across life history stages. Ontogenetic shifts in ecology may introduce antagonistic selection …

Surprisingly, little is known about body‐size evolution within the most diverse amphibian
order, anurans (frogs and toads), despite known effects of body size on the physiological …

Abstract Theory predicts that sexually dimorphic traits under strong sexual selection,
particularly those involved with intersexual signaling, can accelerate speciation and produce …

We present a molecular phylogenetic analysis of the hylid tribe Hylini, with the goals of
testing the monophyly of the genera Duellmanohyla, Isthmohyla, and Ptychohyla and …

Australasia harbors very high squamate diversity and is a center of endemicity for a number
of major lineages. However, despite this diversity, the diplodactyloid geckos of Australia …