Latest cane toad research
Newest papers on Rhinella marina in the HerpAtlas research library, updated automatically.
- Anthropogenically modified habitats favor bigger and bolder lizards.
Pettit L, Brown GP, Ward-Fear G et al. · Ecology and evolution · 2021-01 · open access
Anthropogenic activities often create distinctive but discontinuously distributed habitat patches with abundant food but high risk of predation. Such sites can be most effectively utilized by individuals with specific behaviors and morphologies. Thus, a widespread species that contains a diversity…
- Effects of learning and adaptation on population viability.
Indigo NL, Jolly CJ, Kelly E et al. · Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2021-01
- Dehydrobufotenin extracted from the Amazonian toad Rhinella marina (Anura: Bufonidae) as a prototype molecule for the development of antiplasmodial drugs.
Banfi FF, Krombauer GC, da Fonseca AL et al. · The journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseases · 2021-01 · open access
Background The resistance against antimalarial drugs represents a global challenge in the fight and control of malaria. The Brazilian biodiversity can be an important tool for research and development of new medicinal products. In this context, toxinology is a multidisciplinary approach on the…
- Rhinella marina (Cane Toad). Predation.
Peter X. Xiong, Francesa T. Erickson, and Eric T. Hileman · Herpetological Review · 2021-01
- Front Propagation of a Sexual Population with Evolution of Dispersion: A Formal Analysis
Léonard Dekens, Florian Lavigne · SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics · 2021-01
- Rhinella marina (Cane Toad). Arboreality.
José Augusto Machado Souza Júnior, M. M. da F. Santos, Ubiratã Ferreira Souza, Letícia Azêvedo Sá dos Santos, Geraldo Jorge B. de Moura, and Moacir Santos Tinôco · Herpetological Review · 2021-01
- Predicting global climatic suitability for the four most invasive anuran species using ecological niche factor analysis
Desiree Andersen, Amaël Borzée, Yikweon Jang · Global Ecology and Conservation · 2020-12 · open access
- Rapid divergence of parasite infectivity and host resistance during a biological invasion
Martin Mayer, Richard Shine, Gregory Paul Brown · Biological Journal of the Linnean Society · 2020-12
- Differences in morphology and in composition and release of parotoid gland secretion in introduced cane toads ( Rhinella marina ) from established populations in Florida, USA.
Gardner ST, Kepas M, Simons CR et al. · Ecology and evolution · 2020-12 · open access
Cane toads are highly toxic bufonids invasive in several locations throughout the world. Although physiological changes and effects on native predators for Australian populations have been well documented, Florida populations have received little attention. Cane toads were collected from…
- Choose your meals carefully if you need to coexist with a toxic invader.
Pettit L, Ward-Fear G, Shine R · Scientific reports · 2020-12 · open access
Vulnerable native species may survive the impact of a lethally toxic invader by changes in behaviour, physiology and/or morphology. The roles of such mechanisms can be clarified by standardised testing. We recorded behavioural responses of monitor lizards (Varanus panoptes and V. varius) to legs of…
- Nondestructive biomarkers in giant toad (Rhinella marina) to assess the effect of complex mixture of pollutants in Coatzacoalcos River, Mexico.
Cruz-Santiago O, Pérez-Maldonado IN, González-Mille DJ et al. · Environmental toxicology and pharmacology · 2020-12
- Do Epigenetic Changes Drive Corticosterone Responses to Alarm Cues in Larvae of an Invasive Amphibian?
Sarma RR, Edwards RJ, Crino OL et al. · Integrative and comparative biology · 2020-12
- Evidence of mutagenic and lethal effects of herbicides on Amazonian frogs
Lucas Ferrante, Philip M. Fearnside · Acta Amazonica · 2020-11 · open access
ABSTRACT Amphibians are excellent bioindicators because they are sensitive to chemical pollution and can indicate ecosystem changes due to the presence of or exposure to chemical compounds. Here we report evidence of the impact of herbicides, including glyphosate, on amphibians in a locality in the…
- The accelerating anuran: evolution of locomotor performance in cane toads ( Rhinella marina , Bufonidae) at an invasion front.
Hudson CM, Vidal-García M, Murray TG et al. · Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020-11 · open access
Introduction To understand the evolutionary processes that have shaped phenotypic variation within and among species, we ideally need information not only on morphology, but also on the ways in which morphological variation translates into effects on performance, and hence on lifetime reproductive…
- Developmental assays using invasive cane toads, Rhinella marina, reveal safety concerns of a common formulation of the rice herbicide, butachlor.
Shuman-Goodier ME, Singleton GR, Forsman AM et al. · Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2020-11
- Effect of Multiradiance Low-Level Laser Therapy and Topical Silver Sulfadiazine on Healing Characteristics of Dermal Wounds in Marine Toads ( Rhinella marina ).
Archibald KE, Harrison T, Troan B et al. · Veterinary medicine international · 2020-10 · open access
Current recommendations for wound management in amphibians are based primarily on clinical experience and on extrapolation from other taxa, whereas controlled clinical studies are lacking. Low-level laser therapy, also termed photobiomodulation, has gained popularity in veterinary medicine and may…
- Skin resistance to water gain and loss has changed in cane toads ( Rhinella marina ) during their Australian invasion.
Kosmala GK, Brown GP, Shine R et al. · Ecology and evolution · 2020-10 · open access
The water-permeable skin of amphibians renders them highly sensitive to climatic conditions, and interspecific correlations between environmental moisture levels and rates of water exchange across the skin suggest that natural selection adapts hydroregulatory mechanisms to local challenges. How…
- A famous failure: Why were cane toads an ineffective biocontrol in Australia?
Richard Shine, Georgia Ward‐Fear, Gregory Paul Brown · Conservation Science and Practice · 2020-10 · open access
Abstract In 1935, cane toads ( Rhinella marina ) were brought to Australia to control insect pests. The devastating ecological impacts of that introduction have attracted extensive research, but the toads' impact on their original targets has never been evaluated. Our analyses confirm that sugar…
- Estimating the benefit of quarantine: eradicating invasive cane toads from islands
Adam S. Smart, Reid Tingley, Ben L. Phillips · NeoBiota · 2020-10 · open access
Islands are increasingly used to protect endangered populations from the negative impacts of invasive species. Quarantine efforts on islands are likely to be undervalued in circumstances in which a failure incurs non-economic costs. One approach to ascribe monetary value to such efforts is by…
- Within‐population variation in dietary traits: implications for vulnerability and impact of imperiled keystone predators
Georgia Ward‐Fear, Richard Shine, Gregory Paul Brown · Ecosphere · 2020-10 · open access
Abstract Within a population of apex predators, differences among individuals can influence both their ecological impact and their vulnerability to threatening processes. Our field studies on a large monitor lizard (Varanus panoptes) in the Australian wet–dry tropics show that diets shift…
- It is time to rebalance the risk equation
Michelle Marvier, Peter Kareiva · Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment · 2020-10
- Predators learning to avoid toxic invasive prey: a study on individual variation among free-ranging lizards
Georgia Ward‐Fear, Gregory Paul Brown, Richard Shine · Behaviour · 2020-09
- Divergent Influenza-Like Viruses of Amphibians and Fish Support an Ancient Evolutionary Association.
Parry R, Wille M, Turnbull OMH et al. · Viruses · 2020-09 · open access
Influenza viruses (family Orthomyxoviridae ) infect a variety of vertebrates, including birds, humans, and other mammals. Recent metatranscriptomic studies have uncovered divergent influenza viruses in amphibians, fish and jawless vertebrates, suggesting that these viruses may be widely…
- Status of mammals on Groote Eylandt: Safe haven or slow burn?
Heiniger J, Davies HF, Gillespie GR · Austral Ecology. · 2020-09
- Field trials of chemical suppression of embryonic cane toads ( Rhinella marina ) by older conspecifics.
McCann S, Crossland M, Greenlees M et al. · Ecology and evolution · 2020-08 · open access
Laboratory experiments have shown that the viability of embryos of the invasive cane toad ( Rhinella marina ) can be reduced by exposure to chemical cues from older conspecific larvae. These effects (very strong in laboratory trials) may offer an exciting new approach to controlling this…
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