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Frogs and Toads of Northern Belize
EDIS, 2018 Belize is home to several threatened frog species. One of them, the Maya mountains frog, lives nowhere else in the world. This 4-page fact sheet written by Jenna M. Cole, Sarah K. Cooke, Venetia S. Briggs-Gonzalez, Justin R.
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Behavioural divergence during biological invasions: a study of cane toads (Rhinella marina) from contrasting environments in Hawai'i [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Invasive species must deal with novel challenges, both from the alien environment and from pressures arising from range expansion per se (e.g. spatial sorting).
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Constructing an Invasion Machine: The Rapid Evolution of a Dispersal-Enhancing Phenotype During the Cane Toad Invasion of Australia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Biological invasions can induce rapid evolutionary change. As cane toads (Rhinella marina) have spread across tropical Australia over an 80-year period, their rate of invasion has increased from around 15 to 60 km per annum.
C M Hudson +4 more
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Sapos vestidos y murciélagos muertos: magia de género en la temprana Edad Moderna
ILCEA, 2022 Two of the animals more frequently mentioned in Early Spanish witch-trials are toads and bats. However, unlike the usual representations of them together in modern popular culture, toads were fundamentally associated with women (witches) and bats with ...
María Tausiet
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Is the behavioural divergence between range-core and range-edge populations of cane toads (Rhinella marina) due to evolutionary change or developmental plasticity? [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Individuals at the leading edge of expanding biological invasions often show distinctive phenotypic traits, in ways that enhance their ability to disperse rapidly and to function effectively in novel environments.
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Oxidative stress markers and antioxidant defense in hibernating common Asian toads, Duttaphrynus melanostictus [PDF]
Archives of Biological Sciences, 2020 To assess the oxidative assaults and antioxidant defense, oxidative stress markers, including lipid peroxidation level, protein carbonylation level, GSSG/GSH ratio and nonenzymatic antioxidants such as total glutathione, ascorbic acid and uric acid, in ...
Sahoo Deba Das, Patnaik Prabhati
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Jurnal Biologi Udayana, 2019 Frogs and toads commonly found by human. Frogs and toads could become a bio-indicator of an environment. Paliyan Wildlife Sanctuary is a forest area which posses several animal to protect and it’s located in Gunungkidul Regency, Province of DIY.
Donan Satria Yudha +7 more
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Ciência Rural, 1997 O objetivo deste trabalho é relatar a ocorrência do parasitismo monoespecífico de A. fuscum NEUMANN, 1899 e A. humerale KOCH, 1844 em sapos (Bufo arenalis) no Município de Rosana, Estado de São Paulo, Brasil.
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