Grow a thick skin frog! VanBuren et al. (2025) examined three frog species from the northern United States and found that skin layers were not consistent over the time. Read the details at AmphibiaWeb.org #AWNews
Amphibian species' body sizes can respond idiosyncratically or inconsistently to environmental changes. Fleming and Sheldon (2025) found six plethodont species in Virginian mountain streams had significant size shifts, but these shifts may not favor persistence. Read more at AmphibiaWeb.org #AWNews
The recent description of the 9,000th amphibian species marks a remarkable milestone for biodiversity science and a testament to decades of careful fieldwork, taxonomy, and collaboration across the globe. Read more at AmphibiaWeb.org #AWNews
Navarrete et al. (2025) provides evidence that Caecilians aren't totally blind. Go to AmphibiaWeb.org to read more of this #AWNews.
Conservations in Ecuador are trying to protect the habitat of the recently rediscovered Jambato Harlequin Toad (Atelopus ignescens). If you'd like to help or learn more, here's their crowd funding site.
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How are ballistic tongues in plethodonts and chameleons similar and different? Zeng et al. (2025) explore this in this week's #AWNews. Visit AmphibiaWeb.org to read more.
Limnonectes palavanensis group exhibit one of the most advanced brood care behaviors. Recently, Dehling et al (2025) showed that there is an unexpectedly high diversity within this clade. Read more of this #AWNews at AmphibiaWeb.org
Abondano Almeida et al. (2025) characterize the pheromones used during reproduction in Hyloxalus, revealing more complexity of chemical communication than previously thought. #AWNews. Read the full summary at AmphibiaWeb.org
This week's #AWNews summarizes Dunlop et al (2025) analysis of cane toad effects in Australia. Read more at AmphibiaWeb.org
Ring in the new year by reading Lemierre et al. (2025)'s findings on anuran prehistoric past in this week's #AWNews at AmphibiaWeb.org
Happy New year from AmphibiaWeb to you! See our home page at AmphibiaWeb.org for a message from our directors. And thank you for your support over our 25 years of existence.
The majority of amphibians have broad generalist diets, so what won't a frog eat? See this week's #AWNews on work by Sugiura and Kohei (2025), who investigated the effectiveness of wasp pseudostingers as an antipredator tool at AmphibiaWeb.org
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In this week's #AWNews González-Santoro et al. (2025) explains how sexual selection answers the paradox of polymorphism in the aposematic signaling of Oophaga pumilio. Read more at AmphibiaWeb.org
What's worse for frogs, wildfire or floods? Bieri and Rowley (2025) address this question in this week's #AWNews. See the summary at AmphibiaWeb.org
In this #AWNews, Lu et al. (2025) present a chromosome-level genome for O. rhodostigmatus to better understand the ontology and gene expression color and eyesight. Read more at AmphibiaWeb.org
Moretta-Urdiales et al (2025) explored 101 canopy bromeliads to help us understand where frogs live. Read more of about their findings in this week's #AWNews at AmphibiaWeb.org
Following up on our #AWNews about Xenopus in Washington State, Duvall et al. (2025) identify where there impact is strongest in Salmon conservation. Read more at AmphibiaWeb.org
Can lungless tadpoles get their lungs back before metamorphosis? Find out in this week's #AWNews featuring Phillips et al. (2025) at AmphibiaWeb.org
Here's two small grant opportunities (due dates in Dec):
Burke Museum Study Grant: www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...
Global Amphibian and Reptile Disease Conference Travel Grant: utconferences.eventsair.com/third-gard-c...
In this week's #AWNews, see how leeches are used in vertebrate conservation assessment. Read more at AmphibiaWeb.org
This week's #AWNews features Fuchs and Rödel's (2025) documentation of egg-burying behavior and hatching plasticity in Ecuadorian Pristimantis latidiscus. Read the full report at AmphibiaWeb.org
Shen et al. (2025)'s investigation of the co-evolution between Asian newts hosts and parasitic water mites found newt parasitism has multiple evolutionary origins. Read the details of this #AWnews at AmphibiaWeb.org
Genetic threats, such as hybridisation and introgression, are often overlooked in conservation planning. Check out this week's #AWNews on AmphibiaWeb.org to see how Liu and Rowley (2025) address this issue when one parental species is a threatened endemic!
This week's #AWNews features a study by Paluh et al. (2025) that examined the developmental-genetic mechanisms underlying tooth formation in frogs and tested whether a rudimentary dental program is activated in the lower jaw. Read more at AmphibiaWeb.org.
Color me surprised! Waldron et al. (2025) studied the evolutionary consequences polymorphism in Plethodonts using a complete phylogenomic tree of of the family paired with morphometric analyses. She the results of this #AWNews at AmphibiaWeb.org
Feeling blue? A citizen scientist asked about blue (axanthic) frogs, leading to a pandemic-era internship project to explore the spatial, phylogenetic, and temporal prevalence of axanthism in frogs lead by Drs. Molly Womack and Rayna Bell. Read the results this #AWNews at AmphibiaWeb.org
How does Chytrid affect a species' role in it's ecosystem? Read this week's #AWNews on Scheele et al. (2025) work at AmphibiaWeb.org to find out.
An impressive study by Donnellan et al. (2025) provides a near-comprehensive phylogenetic tree for a major clade of frogs that occur across Australia, New Guinea, and many islands in the adjacent Indo-Australian Archipelago. Read More about this #AWNews at AmphibiaWeb.org
The process to become a troglodyte is being illuminated in our latest #AWNews. Read how Tovar et al.'s use a radiation of paedomorphic Brook Salamanders (Eurycea) to study the molecular and developmental basis of eye loss at AmphibiaWeb.org.
