Variation in pigmentation gene expression is associated with distinct aposematic color morphs in the poison frog Dendrobates auratus [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019 Background Color and pattern phenotypes have clear implications for survival and reproduction in many species. However, the mechanisms that produce this coloration are still poorly characterized, especially at the genomic level.
Adam M. M. Stuckert +6 more
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Reproductive activity of the frog Dendrobates auratus Girard in captivity breeding [PDF]
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2010 Research of the reproduction activities of Dendrobates auratus Girard, 1855 is part of a broader analysis of the problems encountered when keeping frogs from the family Dendrobatidae in captivity.
Romana Křížová
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Sodium ion channel alkaloid resistance does not vary with toxicity in aposematic Dendrobates poison frogs: An examination of correlated trait evolution. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Spatial heterogeneity in the strength or agents of selection can lead to geographic variation in ecologically important phenotypes. Many dendrobatid frogs sequester alkaloid toxins from their diets and often exhibit fixed mutations at NaV1.4, a voltage ...
Michael L Yuan, Ian J Wang
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The mitochondrial genomes of three species of poison frogs (Anura: Dendrobates) [PDF]
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2017 We reconstructed nearly complete mitogenomes for three species of poison frogs, Dendrobates auratus, D. leucomelas, and D. tinctorius, from RNAseq data. We recovered the 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes (except tRNA-Val for D.
Mariana L. Lyra +5 more
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Environmental and Host Effects on Skin Bacterial Community Composition in Panamanian Frogs [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 Research on the amphibian skin microbiota has focused on identifying bacterial taxa that deter a pathogenic chytrid fungus, and on describing patterns of microbiota variation. However, it remains unclear how environmental variation affects amphibian skin
Brandon J. Varela +6 more
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Kin discrimination in cannibalistic tadpoles of the Green Poison Frog, Dendrobates auratus (Anura, Dendrobatidae) [PDF]
Phyllomedusa: Journal of Herpetology, 2009 Cannibalizing a related individual can reduce the inclusive fitness of the cannibal. Hence, mechanisms that allow a tadpole to recognize and modify its behavior toward kin may reduce the inclusive fitness costs of cannibalism.
Heather M. Gray +2 more
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No evidence of quantitative honest signaling in aposematic traits of the green and black dendrobatid frog <i>Dendrobates auratus</i> in Costa Rica. [PDF]
Curr ZoolAbstract Aposematism is an antipredator strategy in which conspicuous coloration acts as a warning of chemical defenses to potential predators. Evidence suggests that aposematism largely functions under positive frequency-dependent selection, which is thought to maintain uniformity of aposematic signals.
Porras-Brenes K, Church G, Saporito RA.
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Phyllomedusa: Journal of Herpetology, 2014 Amphibian populations are in decline worldwide. Monitoring programas are important, but many studies use invasive techniques to handle, mark, and identify individuals.
Michael V. Cove, R. Manuel Spínola
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Revista de Biología Tropical, 2009 The green and black poison-dart frog Dendrobates auratus exhibits high intraspecific variation in hue color and pattern throughout its range, making it a very popular species in the pet trade.
Lisa D Patrick, Mahmood Sasa
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Unusual whitish eggs in the poison frogDendrobates auratusGirard, 1855 [PDF]
Tropical Zoology, 2012 Poison frogs in the genus Dendrobates (sensu Grant et al. 2006) are known to lay black pigmented eggs. During a field study in May 2010 in central Panama, a captive pair of wild-caught adult Dendrobates auratus laid a clutch of whitish eggs. The eggs developed and metamorphic froglets were similar in size and color to that of age-matched normal-colored
Eric E. Flores +2 more
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