Arid habitats intensify sexual conflict in invasive cane toads (Rhinella marina) [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceAmplexus by male cane toads (Rhinella marina) impairs a female’s mobility and may impose a risk of drowning. Near the arid-zone edge of the toads’ Australian invasion, artificial ponds provide the only permanent open water.
Richard Shine +5 more
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Toads on Lava: Spatial Ecology and Habitat Use of Invasive Cane Toads (Rhinella marina) in Hawai’i [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Most ecological research on cane toads (Rhinella marina) has focused on invasive populations in Australia, ignoring other areas where toads have been introduced. We radio-tracked and spool-tracked 40 toads, from four populations on the island of Hawai'i.
Georgia Ward-Fear, Richard Shine
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A combination of environmental and landscape variables drives movement and habitat use in two Anaxyrus toads [PDF]
Movement EcologyBackground Movement patterns provide valuable information to guide habitat management strategies for declining amphibian populations. However, our understanding of movement ecology in amphibians is incomplete, as previous research has focused largely on ...
Alexander M. Ferentinos +3 more
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Invasive Cane Toads: Social Facilitation Depends upon an Individual’s Personality [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Individual variation in behavioural traits (including responses to social cues) may influence the success of invasive populations. We studied the relationship between sociality and personality in invasive cane toads (Rhinella marina) from a recently ...
Gregory Brown, Richard Shine
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Assessment of oral health belief and oral hygiene practices among the Toda tribe in Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu [PDF]
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary CareBackground: Oral diseases make significant contributions to the global burden of disease, which is particularly high in the underprivileged groups of both developed and developing countries.
Lalitha Rani Chellappa +2 more
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Does a biological invasion modify host immune responses to parasite infection? [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceBiological invasions can disrupt the close and longstanding coevolved relationships between host and parasites. At the same time, the shifting selective forces acting on demography during invasion can result in rapid evolution of traits in both host and ...
Gregory P. Brown +2 more
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A combined morphological and genetic survey of helminths in the European green toad Bufotes viridis (Laurenti, 1768) from eastern Slovakia [PDF]
ParasitologyAccurate characterization of helminth communities in amphibian hosts is essential for understanding host-parasite dynamics in changing environments.
Kristián Gulyás +8 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 Cane toads (Rhinella marina) are notoriously successful invaders: from 101 individuals brought to Australia in 1935, poisonous toads now cover an area >1.2 million km2 with adverse effects on native fauna.
Alice G. Russo +14 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Like most invasive species, cane toads have attracted less research in their native range than in invaded areas. We radio-tracked 34 free-ranging toads in French Guiana, a source region for most invasive populations, across two coastal and two rainforest
Jayna L. DeVore +2 more
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Anti-Trypanosomal Bufadienolides from the Oocytes of the Toad Rhinella alata (Anura, Bufonidae)
Molecules, 2023 Amphibians are widely known as a prolific source of bioactive metabolites. In this work, we isolated and characterized compounds with antiparasitic activity from the oocytes of the toad Rhinella alata collected in Panama.
Candelario Rodriguez +6 more
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