Journal of Biogeography, Volume 52, Issue 11, November 2025.ABSTRACT Aim The evolution of adaptive innovations carries strong eco‐evolutionary implications, allowing organisms to explore novel ecological opportunities, which facilitates lineage diversification. The remarkable diversity of reproductive strategies in amphibians provides a natural laboratory for identifying ecological mechanisms driving ...
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The evolution of muscle spindles
Experimental Physiology, Volume 110, Issue 10, Page 1401-1421, October 1, 2025.Abstract Muscle spindles are stretch‐sensitive mechanoreceptors found in the skeletal muscles of most four‐limbed vertebrates. They are unique amongst sensory receptors in the ability to regulate their sensitivity by contraction of the intrafusal muscle fibres on which the sensory endings lie.
Robert W. Banks, Uwe Proske
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Resistance Is Not Futile: Widespread Convergent Evolution of Resistance to Alpha-Neurotoxic Snake Venoms in Caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). [PDF]
Int J Mol Sci, 2023 Mancuso M +7 more
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A new species of Caecilia Linnaeus, 1758 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from French Guiana
Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi - Ciências Naturais, 2018 We describe a new species of the genus Caecilia from French Guiana. The new species differs from most species of the genus in the numbers of primary and secondary grooves. Color pattern, body shape, presence of subdermal scales, and number of teeth separate Caecilia museugoeldi sp. nov. from the other species of the genus.
Marinus Steven Hoogmoed +1 more
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Caeciliidae in amphibia and insecta (Psocoptera): reply to Smith, Lanham and Polhemus
, 1984 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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African Journal of Ecology, 2006 AbstractBoulengerula uluguruensis is a terrestrial caeciliid caecilian described from the Uluguru Mountains of Tanzania. We investigated the relative abundance of B. uluguruensis in agricultural and forested habitats at the beginning of the rainy season.
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Catalogue of type specimens deposited in the Herpetology Collection of the Natural History Museum Gustavo Orcés V. at Escuela Politécnica Nacional (Ecuador). [PDF]
Biodivers Data J, 2023 Almendáriz A +2 more
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Anfíbios do Município de João Pinheiro, uma Área de Cerrado no Noroeste de Minas Gerais, Brasil
, 2021 Here is presented the first records to the amphibian’s fauna from the Municipality of João Pinheiro, an area of “Cerrado” savanna in northwestern Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Silveira, Adriano Lima
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Response of Soil Fauna to the Shift in a Riparian Landscape along an Urban-Rural Habitat Gradient. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Huang Y +8 more
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The Morphology of Prehatching Embryos of Caecilia orientalis (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae)
, 2013 The state of development of advanced embryos of the direct-developing Ecuadorian caecilian Caecilia orientalis (Caeciliidae: Gymnophiona: Amphibia) was examined. Because it is established that development is correlated with reproductive modes in a number
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