Parenting is considered a key evolutionary innovation that contributed to the diversification
and expansion of vertebrates. However, we know little about how such diversity evolved …

The structure and function of the oviducts of members of the three Orders of the Class
Amphibia (Anura, frogs and toads; Urodela, salamanders and newts; Gymnophiona …

Amphibians, and especially the anurans (frogs and toads), exhibit a greater diversity of
reproductive modes than other tetrapod vertebrates. Twenty-nine reproductive modes have …

THE EARLiEST WoRk oN THE HERPEToFAUNA oF THE CERRADo iS a list of 54 reptiles
and amphibians from Lagoa Santa, state of Minas Gerais, prepared by Warming (1892) …

Although most of the unique ways that frogs reproduce were described in the 1800s and
1900s, additional modes are still being discovered in the 21st Century. The concept of …

Annual patterns of breeding activity, reproductive modes, and habitat use are described for a
frog community in a seasonal environment, in the southern Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul …

Within the past two decadesdevastation of the Amazon rainforest has attracted the attention
of notonly biologists and conservationists, but also the general public. Biologists have …

The phenology of calling activity and reproduction of a neotropical anuran community in
French Guiana was studied during one rainy season. We investigated the correlation …

Three frogs of a new species found in cloud forests on two nearby mountains in Guyana
were included in a molecular phylogeny of 17 nuclear and mitochondrial genes (10,739 …

We explored the impact of forest conversion to agricultural mosaic on anuran, lizard, snake,
and turtle assemblages of Neotropical dry forests. Over 2 years, we sampled 6 small …