Amphibian skin is directly exposed to different environments. Amphibians interact with
environmental factors including microorganisms, parasites, predators, and physical factors …

Several developments during the past 15 years have profoundly affected our understanding
of the vomeronasal system (VNS) of vertebrates. In the mid 1990s, the vomeronasal …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Recent speciation research has generally focused on how lineages that originate in
allopatry evolve intrinsic reproductive isolation, or how ecological divergence promotes …

In mammals, social and reproductive behaviours are modulated by pheromones, which are
chemical signals that convey information about sex and strain,. The vomeronasal organ …

Sexual selection has been studied as a major evolutionary driver of animal diversity for
roughly 50 years. Much evidence indicates that competition for mates favors elaborate …

Cytokines of the gp130 family exert their diverse biological effects by formation of stable high
affinity transmembrane receptor complexes that are characterized by the presence of the …

Host-defence peptides secreted from the skin glands of Australian frogs and toads, are, with
a few notable exceptions, different from those produced by anurans elsewhere. This review …

In sheep and goats, exposure of seasonally anestrous females to sexually active males
results in activation of luteinizing hormone (LH) secretion and synchronized ovulation. This …

This review focuses on research into the hormonal control of behaviors in amphibians that
was conducted prior to the 21st century. Most advances in this field come from studies of a …