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- Alternative reproductive modes of Atlantic forest frogs
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
- Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)
- Univ Estadual Santa Cruz
- Universidade Federal do Pampa (UNIPAMPA)
- Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
- 0289-0771
- Fundação O Boticario de Protecao a Natureza
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
- Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
- FBPN-UFPR: 623
- FAPESP: 08/50575-1
- FAPESP: 08/50325-5
- FAPESP: 08/52847-9
- Diversity in reproductive modes is well known in amphibians, mainly among anurans, which are characterized by a diversity in breeding biology that exceeds that of any other tetrapod. Currently, 39 reproductive modes are recognized among anurans and some species display more than one mode. The breeding biology of some Brazilian Atlantic forest anurans was investigated for this study. We observed unreported reproductive modes for six species, variability in the reproductive modes of individuals of the same species (whereby some individuals of a given population displayed unusual reproductive modes when the physical conditions of the breeding site were suboptimal), and variations within the modes. These observations suggest possible evolutionary steps for the reproductive modes. Anuran breeding biology seems to be more diverse than previously reported, and a character matrix could be constructed to describe the total range of variation of the anuran reproductive modes.
- 1-May-2012
- Journal of Ethology. Tokyo: Springer Tokyo, v. 30, n. 2, p. 331-336, 2012.
- 331-336
- Springer Tokyo
- Reproduction
- Amphibian
- Anura
- Behavioral variation
- Egg-deposition site
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10164-011-0322-9
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