Global Emergence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and Amphibian Chytridiomycosis in Space, Time, and Host

MC Fisher, TWJ Garner… - Annual review of …, 2009‏ - annualreviews.org
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is a chytrid fungus that causes chytridiomycosis in
amphibians. Only named in 1999, Bd is a proximate driver of declines in global amphibian …

Skeletochronological assessment of demographic life-history traits in amphibians

U Sinsch - The Herpetological Journal, 2015‏ - ingentaconnect.com
A long-standing challenge for amphibian population ecologists is the reliable estimation of
age in individuals without known recapture history. The development and widespread …

[کتاب][B] The evolutionary strategies that shape ecosystems

JP Grime, S Pierce - 2012‏ - books.google.com
THE EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES THAT SHAPE ECOSYSTEMS In 1837 a young Charles
Darwin took his notebook, wrote “I think”, and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree …

What is missing in amphibian decline research: insights from ecological sensitivity analysis

R Biek, WC Funk, BA Maxell, LS Mills - Conservation Biology, 2002‏ - Wiley Online Library
Inventory, monitoring, and experimental studies have been the primary approaches for
documenting and understanding the problem of amphibian declines. However, little …

Sexual size dimorphism in anurans

JM Monnet, MI Cherry - … of the Royal Society of London …, 2002‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the direction and extent of sexual size
dimorphism in anurans (in which males are usually smaller than females) as a result of …

Do amphibians follow Bergmann's rule?

KG Ashton - canadian Journal of Zoology, 2002‏ - cdnsciencepub.com
Il n'est pas clairement établi que la règle de Bergmann, taille plus grande des individus
d'une espèce dans les zones plus fraîches, s' applique à tous les groupes d'ectothermes …

Latitudinal countergradient variation in the common frog (Rana temporaria) development rates – evidence for local adaptation

AT Laugen, A Laurila, K Räsänen… - Journal of evolutionary …, 2003‏ - academic.oup.com
Adaptive genetic differentiation along a climatic gradient as a response to natural selection
is not necessarily expressed at phenotypic level if environmental effects on population mean …

Are glacial refugia hotspots of speciation and cytonuclear discordances? Answers from the genomic phylogeography of Spanish common frogs

C Dufresnes, AG Nicieza, SN Litvinchuk… - Molecular …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Subdivided Pleistocene glacial refugia, best known as “refugia within refugia”, provided
opportunities for diverging populations to evolve into incipient species and/or to hybridize …

Differences in spawning date between populations of common frog reveal local adaptation

AB Phillimore, JD Hadfield, OR Jones… - Proceedings of the …, 2010‏ - pnas.org
Phenotypic differences between populations often correlate with climate variables, resulting
from a combination of environment-induced plasticity and local adaptation. Species …

Explorative Genome Scan to Detect Candidate Loci for Adaptation Along a Gradient of Altitude in the Common Frog (Rana temporaria)

A Bonin, P Taberlet, C Miaud… - Molecular biology and …, 2005‏ - academic.oup.com
Today, with the rapid development of population genomics, the genetic basis of adaptation
can be unraveled directly at the genome level, without any prerequisites about the …