Latest phantasmal poison frog research
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- Chemical communication in frogs (Anura) and their larvae
Konrad Lipkowski · 2025-01 · open access
Chemical communication is one of the most widespread forms of information transfer in the animal kingdom, however, its role in frogs (Anura) remains poorly understood. While chemically mediated predator–prey interactions in larval stages have received considerable attention, other life stages and…
- Sexy fingers: Pheromones in the glands of male dendrobatid frogs.
Almeida DA, Twomey E, Vargas-Salinas F et al. · Molecular ecology · 2024-07 · open access
Many animals exchange chemicals during courtship and mating. In some amphibians, sexual chemical communication is mediated by pheromones produced in male breeding glands that are transferred to the female's nostrils during mating. This has been mostly studied in salamanders, despite frogs having…
- Thermal limits along tropical elevational gradients: Poison frog tadpoles show plasticity but maintain divergence across elevation.
Páez-Vacas MI, Funk WC · Journal of thermal biology · 2024-02
- Comparative acute toxicity of pesticides to tadpoles of a tropical anuran (Epipedobates anthonyi), a North American native anuran (Lithobates sphenocephalus) and a standard fish species
Scott M. Weir, Lennart Weltje · Basic and Applied Herpetology · 2024-02 · open access
- Perception of con- and heterospecific injury cues in tadpoles of dendrobatid, ranid and bufonid frogs (Anura)
Konrad Lipkowski, Diana Abondano Almeida, Lisa Maria Schulte · Evolutionary Ecology · 2023-10 · open access
Abstract Predator-prey interactions are vital for organismal survival. They shape anti-predator mechanisms and often depend on sensory abilities. Tadpoles use chemical cues, such as injury cues (alarm cues), to assess predation risks and modify their life-history, morphology, and behaviours…
- A potential cost of evolving epibatidine resistance in poison frogs.
York JM, Borghese CM, George AA et al. · BMC biology · 2023-06 · open access
Background Some dendrobatid poison frogs sequester the toxin epibatidine as a defense against predators. We previously identified an amino acid substitution (S108C) at a highly conserved site in a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor β2 subunit of dendrobatid frogs that decreases sensitivity to…
- Temporal variation in skin microbiota of cohabitating amphibians.
Kruger A, Roth S · Canadian journal of microbiology · 2022-08
- Contrasting environmental drivers of genetic and phenotypic divergence in an Andean poison frog (Epipedobates anthonyi).
Páez-Vacas MI, Trumbo DR, Funk WC · Heredity · 2021-10
- First report of partial leucism in the poison frog Epipedobates anthonyi (Anura: Dendrobatidae) in El Oro, Ecuador
David Brito‐Zapata · Neotropical Biodiversity · 2021-01 · open access
The poison frog Epipedobates anthonyi is a species of the Dendrobatidae family distributed in a restricted area in Ecuador and Peru; it has high chromatic variation in Ecuadorian populations. An individual with partial leucism was registered in the Province of El Oro-Ecuador. It is the first case…
- Isolation and characterization of 12 microsatellite loci in Epipedobates anthonyi (Amphibia: Anura: Dendrobatidae) for population genetic analysis.
Páez-Vacas MI, Oleas NH · Molecular biology reports · 2019-03
- Absolute Configuration and Pharmacology of the Poison Frog Alkaloid Phantasmidine.
Fitch RW, Snider BB, Zhou Q et al. · Journal of natural products · 2018-04
- The extraordinary biology and development of marsupial frogs (Hemiphractidae) in comparison with fish, mammals, birds, amphibians and other animals.
Del Pino EM · Mechanisms of development · 2018-01
- Mechanisms of population divergence along elevational gradients in the Tropics
Mónica Isabel Páez Vacas, Funk, W. Chris, Angeloni, Lisa M. et al. · Digital Collections of Colorado (Colorado State University) · 2016-01
- Toward A Stereoselective Synthesis of Phantasmidine and Analogs
RW Fitch, L Major, David R. Dalton et al. · Planta Medica · 2013-07
- Contact toxicities of anuran skin alkaloids against the fire ant (Solenopsis invicta).
Weldon PJ, Cardoza YJ, Vander Meer RK et al. · Die Naturwissenschaften · 2013-01
- Phantasmidine: an epibatidine congener from the ecuadorian poison frog Epipedobates anthonyi.
Fitch RW, Spande TF, Garraffo HM et al. · Journal of natural products · 2010-03
- Epibatidine: From Frog Alkaloid to Analgesic Clinical Candidates. A Testimonial to “True Grit”!
Michael J. Williams, H. Martin Garraffo, Thomas F. Spande · Heterocycles · 2009-01
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