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Hurricane Toads

EDIS, 2020
Eastern spadefoots are a common but largely unappreciated species of native toad in Florida. Following torrential rains they emerge from hiding and breed in shallow pools.
Steve A Johnson, Candace D Furhmann
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Differentiating Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and B. salamandrivorans in Amphibian Chytridiomycosis Using RNAScope®in situ Hybridization

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2019
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and B. salamandrivorans are important amphibian pathogens responsible for morbidity and mortality in free-ranging and captive frogs, salamanders, and caecilians. While B.
Robert J. Ossiboff, Anastasia E. Towe, Melissa A. Brown, Ana V. Longo, Ana V. Longo, Karen R. Lips, Debra L. Miller, Debra L. Miller, E. Davis Carter, Matthew J. Gray, Salvatore Frasca   +10 more
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High Time Resolution Analysis of Voltage-Dependent and Voltage-Independent Calcium Sparks in Frog Skeletal Muscle Fibers

Frontiers in Physiology, 2020
In amphibian skeletal muscle calcium (Ca2+) sparks occur both as voltage-dependent and voltage-independent ligand-activated release events. However, whether their properties and their origin show similarities are still in debate. Elevated K+, constant Cl–
Henrietta Cserne Szappanos, Henrietta Cserne Szappanos, János Vincze, Dóra Bodnár, Beatrix Dienes, Martin F. Schneider, László Csernoch, Péter Szentesi   +7 more
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Pharmacological Effects of a Novel Bradykinin-Related Peptide (RR-18) from the Skin Secretion of the Hejiang Frog (Ordorrana hejiangensis) on Smooth Muscle

Biomedicines, 2020
Bradykinin (BK) and bradykinin-related peptides (BRPs), which were identified from a diversity of amphibian skin secretions, exerted contractile and relaxing effects on non-vascular and vascular smooth muscle, respectively.
Xiaowei Zhou, Jie Xu, Ruimin Zhong, Chengbang Ma, Mei Zhou, Zhijian Cao, Xinping Xi, Chris Shaw, Tianbao Chen, Lei Wang, Hang Fai Kwok   +10 more
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Investigating the Antimicrobial Activity of Anuran Toxins

Microorganisms
Anurans, commonly known as frogs and toads, comprise a diverse group of amphibians distributed across all continents except Antarctica. This manuscript provides a detailed overview of the global anuran fauna, emphasizing their biology, remarkable ...
Manuela B. Pucca, Anne Grace A. C. Marques, Ana Flávia M. Pereira, Guilherme Melo-dos-Santos, Felipe A. Cerni, Beatriz C. S. Jacob, Isabela G. Ferreira, Rafael L. Piccolo, Marco A. Sartim, Wuelton M. Monteiro, Isadora S. Oliveira   +10 more
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Importance of Spring Habitats for Amphibians: The Case of Estavelle Ecotones in the Classical Karst Region

Animals
Springs are ecotones between groundwater and surface water, important for a variety of both surficial and subterranean organisms. However, their use by amphibians has been poorly assessed.
Damiano Brognoli, Elia Lo Parrino, Giorgia Terraneo, Giorgio Grassi, Veronica Zampieri, Matteo Galbiati, Valentina Balestra, Valeria Messina, Benedetta Barzaghi, Stefano Lapadula, Raoul Manenti   +10 more
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CALL #FROG2023: "Money & Games" vom 13. bis 15. Oktober 2023, im Wiener Rathaus

Medienimpulse, 2023
While thousands of enthusiastic players are gathering annually at the Game City in the Vienna City Hall, the FROG invites to an academic discourse on the subject of games and play.
Katharina Kaiser-Müller
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Ecological safeguarding and normalized water use of ust-ilimsk wood-industrial complex

RUDN Journal of Ecology and Life Safety, 2010
Nowadays high attention is paid to the ecological problems of cellulose-paper group of enterprises and wood industrial complex as a whole. First of all it is connected with questions of operating optimization of water use and water derivation systems. On
B N Frog, D B Frog, M D Harlamova
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The cloning of a frog [PDF]

Development, 2013
It is relatively unusual for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to be made, to a large extent, on the basis of a single author paper, published over 50 years ago, for work carried out by a graduate student. This was largely true of a paper published in 1962 in the journal Development (called at that time the Journal of Embryology and ...
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Antipredator pheromones in amphibians: a review

Veterinární Medicína, 2006
Specific chemosignals (pheromones) have an important role in the antipredator behaviour in amphibians and other vertebrates. However, relatively little is known about the occurrence of chemical alarm cues just in amphibians.
J. Rajchard
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