... for understanding the causal mechanisms of reproductive isolation. Temporal patterns are salient features of sexual signals that are widely used in species recognition by several taxa, including anurans. Recent advances in our understanding of temporal processing by the anuran auditory system provide an opportunity...

...Ke Deng; Qiao-Ling He; Ya Zhou; Bi-Cheng Zhu; Tong-Liang Wang; Ji-Chao Wang; Jian-Guo Cui ABSTRACT There is increasing evidence that many anurans use multimodal cues to detect, discriminate and/or locate conspecifics and thus modify their behaviors. To date, however, most studies have focused...

...Luis Miguel Senzano; Denis Vieira Andrade ABSTRACT Terrestrial anurans often experience fluctuations in body temperature and hydration state, which are known to influence evaporative water loss through the skin (EWL Skin ) and lungs (EWL Resp ). These effects arise from associated changes in skin...

... of tetrapods, including anurans, have also evolved significant forelimb prehensile capacities that are often thought to have originated in an arboreal context. In addition, grasping is also observed in aquatic species. But how aquatic frogs use their forelimbs to capture and manipulate prey remains largely...

... . 10.1016/j.pbb.2010.09.003 Lannoo , M. J. ( 2000 ). Integration: nervous and sensory systems . In Tadpoes: The Biology of Anuran Larvae (ed. R. W.   McDiarmid and R.   Altig ), p. 458 . Chicago , The University of Chicago Press . Levin , B. E. ( 2006 ). Metabolic...

...Ryan C. Taylor; Barrett A. Klein; Joey Stein; Michael J. Ryan SUMMARY Multimodal signals (acoustic+visual) are known to be used by many anuran amphibians during courtship displays. The relative degree to which each signal component influences female mate choice, however, remains poorly understood...

...Stanley S. Hillman; Michael S. Hedrick; Robert C. Drewes; Philip C. Withers SUMMARY A new method for quantitatively determining lymph flux from various lymphatic sacs of an anuran, the cane toad, was developed. This method used the dye dilution principle of C i V i = C f V f following injection...

...Michael Walton; Bruce D. Anderson ABSTRACT Studies of kangaroos suggest that hopping provides energy savings during locomotion at high speeds, although studies of small mammals suggest that hopping is no more economical than running. To obtain comparative data on anurans, we exercised Fowler’s...