Latest cane toad research
Newest papers on Rhinella marina in the HerpAtlas research library, updated automatically.
- Ecological patterns in the skin microbiota of frogs from tropical Australia.
Christian K, Weitzman C, Rose A et al. · Ecology and evolution · 2018-09 · open access
The microbiota of frog skin can play an important role in protecting against diseases and parasites. The frog skin microbial community represents a complex mix of microbes that are promoted by the chemical environment of the frog skin and influenced by the animal's immediate past environment. The…
- Vision fine-tunes preparation for landing in the cane toad, Rhinella marina .
Ekstrom LJ, Panzini C, Gillis GB · Biology letters · 2018-09
- Proximate mechanisms underlying the rapid modification of phenotypic traits in cane toads (Rhinella marina) across their invasive range within Australia
Katarina C. Stuart, Richard Shine, Gregory Paul Brown · Biological Journal of the Linnean Society · 2018-09
- Behavioural responses of an Australian colubrid snake (Dendrelaphis punctulatus) to a novel toxic prey item (the Cane Toad Rhinella marina)
Llewelyn J, Choyce NC, Phillips BL et al. · Biological invasions · 2018-09
- Not such silly sausages: Evidence suggests northern quolls exhibit aversion to toads after training with toad sausages
Indigo N, Smith J, Webb JK et al. · Austral Ecology. · 2018-08
- The establishment and eradication of an extra-limital population of invasive cane toads
Greenlees MJ, Harris S, White AW et al. · Biological invasions · 2018-08
- Short-duration respirometry underestimates metabolic rate for discontinuous breathers.
Winwood-Smith HS, White CR · The Journal of experimental biology · 2018-07
- Invasive cane toads might initiate cascades of direct and indirect effects in a terrestrial ecosystem
Feit B, Gordon C, Webb J et al. · Biological invasions · 2018-07 · open access
Understanding the impacts that invasive vertebrates have on terrestrial ecosystems extends primarily to invaders’ impacts on species with which they interact directly through mechanisms such as predation, competition and habitat modification. In addition to direct effects, invaders can also…
- Testing for Short- and Long-Term Thermal Plasticity in Corticosterone Responses of an Ectothermic Vertebrate.
Jessop TS, Lane M, Wilson RS et al. · Physiological and biochemical zoology : PBZ · 2018-07
- Anuran predators overcome visual illusion: dazzle coloration does not protect moving prey.
Zlotnik S, Darnell GM, Bernal XE · Animal cognition · 2018-06
- Widespread vulnerability of Malagasy predators to the toxins of an introduced toad.
Marshall BM, Casewell NR, Vences M et al. · Current biology : CB · 2018-06
- Detection of Rickettsia spp. in ticks parasitizing toads (Rhinella marina) in the northern Brazilian Amazon.
Luz HR, Silva-Santos E, Costa-Campos CE et al. · Experimental & applied acarology · 2018-05
- Effects of rearing environment and population origin on responses to repeated behavioural trials in cane toads (Rhinella marina).
Gruber J, Whiting MJ, Brown G et al. · Behavioural processes · 2018-05
- Behavioural divergence during biological invasions: a study of cane toads ( Rhinella marina ) from contrasting environments in Hawai'i.
Gruber J, Brown G, Whiting MJ et al. · Royal Society open science · 2018-04 · open access
Invasive species must deal with novel challenges, both from the alien environment and from pressures arising from range expansion per se (e.g. spatial sorting). Those conditions can create geographical variation in behaviour across the invaded range, as has been documented across regions of…
- Survival of the feces: Does a nematode lungworm adaptively manipulate the behavior of its cane toad host?
Finnerty PB, Shine R, Brown GP · Ecology and evolution · 2018-04 · open access
INTRODUCTION The negative impacts of parasites on their hosts can arise through diverse pathways. Some symptoms of infection are due to physiological or behavioral responses by the host (e.g., fever and upregulation of immune system) that function to kill or damage the pathogen (Kelley, Aubert, &…
- The thermal dependency of locomotor performance evolves rapidly within an invasive species.
Kosmala GK, Brown GP, Christian KA et al. · Ecology and evolution · 2018-04 · open access
Biological invasions can stimulate rapid shifts in organismal performance, via both plasticity and adaptation. We can distinguish between these two proximate mechanisms by rearing offspring from populations under identical conditions and measuring their locomotor abilities in standardized trials.…
- Out of the frying pan: Reintroduction of toad‐smart northern quolls to southern Kakadu National Park
Jolly CJ, Kelly E, Gillespie GR et al. · Austral Ecology. · 2018-04
- Sexual and geographical divergence in head widths of invasive cane toads, Rhinella marina (Anura: Bufonidae), is driven by both rapid evolution and plasticity
Cameron Marshall Hudson, Gregory Paul Brown, Katarina C. Stuart et al. · Biological Journal of the Linnean Society · 2018-03
- On the taxonomic status of Bufo brasiliensis Laurenti, 1768.
Valencia-Zuleta A, Caramaschi U, Maciel NM · Zootaxa · 2018-03
- The costs of parasite infection: Effects of removing lungworms on performance, growth and survival of free‐ranging cane toads
Finnerty PB, Shine R, Brown GP · Functional Ecology · 2018-02
- Physiological plasticity in a successful invader: rapid acclimation to cold occurs only in cool-climate populations of cane toads ( Rhinella marina ).
McCann SM, Kosmala GK, Greenlees MJ et al. · Conservation physiology · 2018-01 · open access
Physiological plasticity may facilitate invasion of novel habitats; but is such plasticity present in all populations of the invader or is it elicited only by specific climatic challenges? In cold-climate areas of Australia, invasive cane toads ( Rhinella marina ) can rapidly acclimate to cool…
- Characterization of the Skin Microbiota of the Cane Toad Rhinella cf. marina in Puerto Rico and Costa Rica.
Abarca JG, Zuniga I, Ortiz-Morales G et al. · Frontiers in microbiology · 2018-01 · open access
Rhinella marina is a toad native to South America that has been introduced in the Antilles, likely carrying high loads of microorganisms, potentially impacting local community diversity. The amphibian skin is involved in pathogen defense and its microbiota has been relatively well studied, however,…
- Rhinella marina (Cane Toad). Diet.
Herpetological Review · 2018-01
- Rhinella marina (Cane Toad). Predation by a crocodile.
Jordy Groffen · Herpetological Review · 2018-01
- Effects of environmental variables on invasive amphibian activity: using model selection on quantiles for counts
Benjamin Müller, Brian S. Cade, Lin Schwarzkopf · Ecosphere · 2018-01 · open access
Abstract Many different factors influence animal activity. Often, the value of an environmental variable may influence significantly the upper or lower tails of the activity distribution. For describing relationships with heterogeneous boundaries, quantile regressions predict a quantile of the…
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