Latest mimic poison frog research
Newest papers on Ranitomeya imitator in the HerpAtlas research library, updated automatically.
- Partner cues and individual variation underlie sex-reversed parental care in poison frogs.
Moss JB, Winter BM, Westrick SE et al. · Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2026-01 · open access
Flexible parental care strategies are widespread in nature and factor into conflict between the sexes and the realization of sex roles. While adaptive explanations abound, the mechanisms underlying flexible 'sex-reversal' of care are less clear. We enlist a biparental frog (Ranitomeya imitator)…
- Olfactory cues elicit species-specific locomotive responses in poison frog tadpoles.
Phipps ME, Baker PR, Bachmann L et al. · microPublication biology · 2025-05 · open access
Amphibian species rear their larvae in distinct environments that may influence how they respond to different sensory stimuli. Here, we investigated the olfactory-mediated locomotive responses of two poison frog species ( Allobates femoralis and Ranitomeya imitator ) that vary in life history…
- Infanticide is driven by unfamiliarity with offspring location and associated with androgenic shifts in mimic poison frogs.
Lewis AR, Goolsby BC, Juarez BH et al. · Hormones and behavior · 2024-11 · open access
Infanticide is widespread across the animal kingdom, but the physiological drivers of infanticide versus care or neglect are relatively unexplored. Here, we identified salient environmental and physiological antecedents of infanticide in the mimic poison frog (Ranitomeya imitator), a biparental…
- The importance of reproductive isolation in driving diversification and speciation within Peruvian mimetic poison frogs (Dendrobatidae).
Lorioux-Chevalier U, Chouteau M, Roland AB · Scientific reports · 2024-08 · open access
- Physiological state matching in a pair bonded poison frog.
Nowicki JP, Rodríguez C, Lee JC et al. · Royal Society open science · 2024-07 · open access
More than a century ago, Charles Darwin hypothesized that the empathy-like phenotype is a phylogenetically widespread phenomenon. This idea remains contentious, due to the challenges of empirically examining emotions, and few investigations among non-mammalian vertebrates. We provide support for…
- What Makes a Mimic? Orange, Red, and Black Color Production in the Mimic Poison Frog (Ranitomeya imitator).
Rubio AO, Stuckert AMM, Geralds B et al. · Genome biology and evolution · 2024-07 · open access
Aposematic organisms rely on their conspicuous appearance to signal that they are defended and unpalatable. Such phenotypes are strongly tied to survival and reproduction. Aposematic colors and patterns are highly variable; however, the genetic, biochemical, and physiological mechanisms producing…
- Tadpoles rely on mechanosensory stimuli for communication when visual capabilities are poor.
Butler JM, McKinney JE, Ludington SC et al. · Developmental biology · 2024-06
- The effects of anthropogenic noise on frogs housed on exhibit at a public aquarium.
Angel C, Romano M, Knapp CR · Zoo biology · 2024-03
- Evidence for individual vocal recognition in a pair-bonding poison frog, Ranitomeya imitator.
Podraza ME, Moss JB, Fischer EK · The Journal of experimental biology · 2024-02
- Beyond color and pattern: elucidating the factors associated with intraspecific aggression in the mimic poison frog (Ranitomeya imitator)
Eli Bieri, Andrew O. Rubio, Kyle Summers · Evolutionary Ecology · 2024-01 · open access
Abstract Assortative or disassortative aggression – when individuals display more aggression towards conspecifics with similar or different phenotypic characteristics – can either maintain polymorphisms or facilitate gene flow between populations depending on which direction the aggression is…
- Investigating the genetic basis of aposematic coloration in poison frogs
Andrew O. Rubio · The Scholarship East Carolina University's Institutional Repository (East Carolina University) · 2023-11
- A histological analysis of coloration in the Peruvian mimic poison frog ( Ranitomeya imitato r).
de Araujo Miles M, Johnson MJ, Stuckert AMM et al. · PeerJ · 2023-06 · open access
Aposematism continues to be a phenomenon of central interest in evolutionary biology. The life history of the mimic poison frog, Ranitomeya imitator , relies heavily on aposematism. In order for aposematic signals to be effective, predators must be able to learn to avoid the associated phenotype.…
- Evolution of acoustic signals associated with cooperative parental behavior in a poison frog.
Moss JB, Tumulty JP, Fischer EK · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023-04 · open access
- Evidence for a Parabasalian Gut Symbiote in Egg-Feeding Poison Frog Tadpoles in Peru
Kayla D. Weinfurther, Adam M. M. Stuckert, Mario E. Muscarella et al. · Evolutionary Biology · 2023-04 · open access
Abstract We report preliminary evidence of a symbiotic parabasalian protist in the guts of Peruvian mimic poison frog (Ranitomeya imitator) tadpoles. This species has biparental care and egg-feeding of tadpoles, while the related R. variabilis consumes the ancestral detritus diet in their nursery…
- Maternal Provisioning of Alkaloid Defenses are Present in Obligate but not Facultative Egg Feeding Dendrobatids.
Villanueva ED, Brooks OL, Bolton SK et al. · Journal of chemical ecology · 2022-12
- Who cares for the eggs? Analysis of egg attendance behaviour in Ranitomeya imitator, a poison frog with biparental care
Lisa Maria Schulte, Kyle Summers · Behaviour · 2021-11
- Mechanisms for Color Convergence in a Mimetic Radiation of Poison Frogs.
Twomey E, Kain M, Claeys M et al. · The American naturalist · 2020-04
- An Empirical Test Indicates Only Qualitatively Honest Aposematic Signaling Within a Population of Vertebrates
Adam M. M. Stuckert, Ralph A. Saporito, Kyle Summers · Journal of Herpetology · 2018-05
- Identifying Population Histories, Adaptive Genes, and Genetic Duplication from Population-Scale Next Generation Sequencing
Tyler P. Linderoth · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2018-01
- Searching for hormonal facilitators: Are vasotocin and mesotocin involved in parental care behaviors in poison frogs?
Schulte LM, Summers K · Physiology & behavior · 2017-03
- Mimetic Divergence and the Speciation Continuum in the Mimic Poison Frog Ranitomeya imitator.
Twomey E, Vestergaard JS, Venegas PJ et al. · The American naturalist · 2015-12
- Intraspecific Call Variation in the Mimic Poison Frog Ranitomeya imitator
Evan M. Twomey, Michael Mayer, Kyle Summers · Herpetologica · 2015-11
- Tadpole Begging Behavior And Parent-Offspring Interactions In The Mimic Poison Frog: Tadpole begging behavior and parent-offspring interactions in the Peruvian mimic poison frog
Miho Yoshioka · 2015-01
- Species and stage specific developmental toxicity of endosulfan exposure in Hyla cinerea and Ranitomeya imitator
Matthew K. Edwards · The Scholarship East Carolina University's Institutional Repository (East Carolina University) · 2015-01
- Reproductive isolation related to mimetic divergence in the poison frog Ranitomeya imitator.
Twomey E, Vestergaard JS, Summers K · Nature communications · 2014-08
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