Characterization of immunoglobulin loci in the gigantic genome of Ambystoma mexicanum
Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 BackgroundThe axolotl, Ambystoma mexicanum is a unique biological model for complete tissue regeneration. Is a neotenic endangered species and is highly susceptible to environmental stress, including infectious disease.
Jesús Martinez-Barnetche +11 more
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Karyological Diversification in the Genus Lyciasalamandra (Urodela: Salamandridae)
Animals, 2021 We performed the first cytogenetic analysis on five out of the seven species of the genus Lyciasalamandra, including seven subspecies, and representatives of its sister genus Salamandra. All the studied species have a similar karyotype of 2n = 24, mostly
Marcello Mezzasalma +4 more
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A new species of day gecko (Reptilia, Gekkonidae, Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887) from Sri Lanka with an updated ND2 gene phylogeny of Sri Lankan and Indian species [PDF]
Zoosystematics and Evolution, 2021 A new day gecko of the genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 is described from the intermediate bioclimatic zone (Haputale Forest and Idalgashinna Forest in Badulla District) of Sri Lanka.
Suranjan Karunarathna +5 more
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Diversity, 2023 Predicting the true status of Data Deficient (DD) species is a prominent theme in recent conservation biology, but there still is much debate regarding the conservation approach that should be used for DD taxa and no definitive conclusions are yet ...
Priscilla Nesi +2 more
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Turkish Journal of Bioscience and Collections, 2020 Hematologic parameters play an important role in the determination of the general health status as well as the physiology of amphibian species and the effects of various stress and poor conditions on some species.
Ceren Nur Özgül +2 more
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Transcriptomic Changes in Hot Spring Frog Tadpoles (Buergeria otai) in Response to Heat Stress
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Buergeria frog tadpoles exhibit high thermal tolerance and are occasionally found in water pools that temporarily exceed 40°C. With the aim of understanding how they can cope with the severe heat stress, we performed RNA-seq of three heat-treated (38°C ...
Shohei Komaki +8 more
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Phylogenetic relationships of African Caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona): insights from mitochondrial rRNA gene sequences [PDF]
, 2003 Africa (excluding the Seychelles) has a diverse caecilian fauna, including the endemic family Scolecomorphidae and six endemic genera of the more cosmopolitan Caeciliidae.
Mark Wilkinson +14 more
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Diversity, 2023 Studies on the skin microbiota of amphibians in different disturbed habitats can clarify the relationship between the skin microbiota composition and environmental factors and have practical implications for the conservation of endangered species.
Huiqun Chen +5 more
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Contradicting habitat type-extinction risk relationships between living and fossil amphibians [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Trait analysis has become a crucial tool for assessing the extinction risk of species. While some extinction risk-trait relationships have been often identical between different living taxa, a temporal comparison of fossil taxa with related current taxa ...
Melanie Tietje, Mark-Oliver Rödel
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Phylogenetic relationships of Indian caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) inferred from mitochondrial rRNA gene sequences [PDF]
, 2002 India has a diverse caecilian fauna, including representatives of three of the six currently recognized families, the Caeciliidae, Ichthyophiidae, the endemic Uraeotyphlidae, but previous molecular phylogenetic studies of caecilians have not included ...
Oommen, O.V. +7 more
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