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

Species distributed across vast continental areas and across major biomes provide unique
model systems for studies of biotic diversification, yet also constitute daunting financial …

We provide a DNA barcoding survey of Malagasy amphibians, including 251 of the 292
nominal species known to date, by complementing previous data with 280 newly determined …

Anthropogenic habitat alterations cause biodiversity loss, which in turn negatively affects
ecosystem functioning and services, and thus human well-being. To be able to consider …

Animal-associated microbial communities can play major roles in the physiology,
development, ecology, and evolution of their hosts, but the study of their diversity has yet …

The genus Salamandra represents a clade of six species of Palearctic salamanders of either
contrasted black–yellow, or uniformly black coloration, known to contain steroidal alkaloid …

Two new species of frogs previously confused with Pristimantis calcarulatus are identified
using molecular phylogenetics and described using an integrative taxonomic approach. The …

Parsley frogs (Pelodytes) comprise the only genus in the family Pelodytidae, an ancient
anuran lineage that split from their closest relatives over 140 million years ago. Pelodytes is …

How environmental factors shape patterns of biotic diversity in tropical ecosystems is an
active field of research, but studies examining the possibility of ecological speciation in …

The Malagasy stream-breeding treefrog species Boophis marojezensis contains
bioacoustically and genetically highly divergent populations. Some of these populations …