Fungal infection affecting frogs' future
Researchers have identified how a fungal skin infection is wiping out our native frog species at an alarming rate.
Plants & Animals
Jan 30, 2019
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News tagged with tree frog
New gene-editing kit puts the power of frog growth into citizen scientists' hands
In an ordinary house tucked away on a quiet street in Oakland, Josiah Zayner stands over a container filled with green tree frogs with a syringe in hand.
Biotechnology
Jan 24, 2019
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Not too big, not too small—tree frogs choose pools that are just right
Frogs that raise their young in tiny pools of water that collect on plant leaves must make a delicate trade-off between the risk of drying out and the risk of being eaten, according to a study publishing December 5 in the ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 5, 2018
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Spectacular frog identified as new species
One of the world's most spectacular frogs has been identified as a new species after 20 years of painstaking research at The University of Manchester.
Plants & Animals
Jul 31, 2018
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Frogwatching—charting climate change's impact in the here and now
We've arranged to meet in a gravel car park at the foot of Mt Majura, a darkening wedge above us in the dusk. My daughter and I wait in the car. It's winter. A woman passes along the nearby pavement, guiding her way by torchlight. ...
Environment
Jul 6, 2018
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These tropical hummingbirds make cricket-like sounds other birds can't hear
Researchers reporting in Current Biology on March 5 have found that a tropical species of hummingbird called a black jacobin makes vocal sounds with an unusually high-frequency pitch that falls outside birds' normal hearing ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 5, 2018
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New study contradicts assumption that true frogs diversified as they expanded their range around globe
Evolutionary biologists long have supposed that when species colonize new geographic regions they often develop new traits and adaptations to deal with their fresh surroundings. They branch from their ancestors and multiply ...
Evolution
Sep 13, 2017
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Naturally fluorescent amphibian found in Amazon basin
(Phys.org)—A team of Brazilian researchers has found a naturally fluorescent tree frog living in the Amazon basin and it represents the only known fluorescent amphibian. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National ...
Tree frogs with foreign sex chromosomes are less fit
During the last glaciation, a huge ice shield reached up to the region of today's Berlin. By the time it started to melt about 20.000 years ago, it enabled a gradual re-colonization of the northern latitudes by many plant ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 15, 2016
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New genus of tree hole breeding frogs found in India
Scientists describe and name a new genus of tree hole breeding frogs from India, according to a study published January 20, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by S. D. Biju from the University of Delhi and colleagues.
Plants & Animals
Jan 20, 2016
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