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Disease Exposure and Antifungal Bacteria on Skin of Invasive Cane Toads, Australia
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2019 Cane toads, an invasive species in Australia, are resistant to fungal pathogens affecting frogs worldwide (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis). From toad skin swabs, we detected higher proportions of bacteria with antifungal properties in Queensland, where ...
Chava L. Weitzman +5 more
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Choose your meals carefully if you need to coexist with a toxic invader
Scientific Reports, 2020 Vulnerable native species may survive the impact of a lethally toxic invader by changes in behaviour, physiology and/or morphology. The roles of such mechanisms can be clarified by standardised testing.
Lachlan Pettit +2 more
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A toolbox for animal call recognition [PDF]
, 2012 Monitoring the natural environment is increasingly important as habit degradation and climate change reduce theworld’s biodiversity.We have developed software tools and applications to assist ecologists with the collection and analysis of acoustic data ...
Nantes, Alfredo +4 more
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In Situ Cane Toad Recognition [PDF]
2018 Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), 2018 Cane toads are invasive, toxic to native predators, compete with native insectivores, and have a devastating impact on Australian ecosystems, prompting the Australian government to list toads as a key threatening process under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
Konovalov, Dmitry A. +2 more
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, 1989 The Cane Toad Times was a satirical magazine, published in Brisbane. It was published over two periods. In the first period in the 1970s, 7 issues were produced. In the second period between 1983 and 1990, 15 issues were produced.
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International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2015 The cane toad invasion in Australia provides a robust opportunity to clarify the infection process in co-evolved versus de novo host–parasite interactions.
Felicity B.L. Nelson +3 more
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Eliciting conditioned taste aversion in lizards: Live toxic prey are more effective than scent and taste cues alone [PDF]
, 2017 © 2016 International Society of Zoological Sciences, Institute of Zoology/Chinese Academy of Sciences and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd Conditioned taste aversion (CTA) is an adaptive learning mechanism whereby a consumer associates the taste of a ...
Pearson, DJ +4 more
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Socio‐economic impact classification of alien taxa (SEICAT) [PDF]
, 2017 1 Many alien taxa are known to cause socio‐economic impacts by affecting the different constituents of human well‐being (security; material and non‐material assets; health; social, spiritual and cultural relations; freedom of choice and action ...
Bacher, Sven +9 more
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Microbiome-Mediated Biotransformation of Cane Toad Bufagenins [PDF]
Journal of Natural Products, 2017 Cane toads are an invasive pest species in which all life stages employ cardiotoxic bufagenins as a chemical defense against predators. Curiously, the bufagenin profiles of eggs and tadpoles are more complex than those of parotoid secretion, the principle mechanism of toxin delivery in adult toads.
Venkatanambi Kamalakkannan +2 more
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Ants biting amphibians: A review and new observations [PDF]
, 2019 Antagonistic interactions between insects and amphibians are the subject of many scientific articles, mostly concerning amphibian predation on insect, but many fewer examples exist of the opposite situation.
Kaczmarski, Mikołaj +2 more
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