supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31772455);Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK20160336and BK20171214);Natural Science Foundation of College in Jiangsu Province(16KJB350004);Suzhou Science and Technology Development Project(SYN201504 and SNG2017045)
Rana kunyuensis is a species of brown frog that lives exclusively on Kunyu Mountain,Yantai,China.In the current study,a 279-bp cDNA sequence encoding a novel antimicrobial peptide (AMP),designated as amurin-9KY,was cl...
supported by grants from the Jiangsu Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program(2017suda098);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31772455);Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK20160336 and BK20171214);Natural Science Foundation of College in Jiangsu Province(16KJB350004);Suzhou Science and Technology Development Project(SYN201504 and SNG2017045)
Antimicrobial peptides(AMPs) are a group of gene-encoded small peptides that play pivotal roles in the host immune system of multicellular organisms.Cathelicidins are an important family of AMPs that exclusively exist...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31501843);Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute,Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)(Y4ZK111B01:2015CASEABRI002);Youth Innovation Promotion Association,CAS,and Animal Branch of the Germplasm Bank of Wild Species,CAS(Large Research Infrastructure Funding)
We describe a new species, Fejervarya muangkanensis sp. nov., based on a series of specimens collected from Ban Tha Khanun, Thong Pha Phum District, Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand. The new species is easily distingui...
supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2014FY210200,2011FY120200);the program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(2015CASEABRI002);the Animal Branch of the Germplasm Bank of Wild Species of Chinese Academy of Sciences(the Large Research Infrastructure Funding)to JC;RMB’s work on the family Ceratobatrachidae has been supported by the U.S.National Science Foundation(DEB 073199,0334952,0743491,1418895)
In an effort to study the systematic affinities and species- level phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic anurans vadably assigned to the genera Ingerana or Limnonectes (family Dicroglossidae), we collected new...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31270443) and the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (LY13C030004). Acknowledgements: We would like to thank Fang LIU and Dan WU for their assistance with the experiments.
We studied acute and joint toxicity of three different agrochemicals (chlorantraniliprole, flubendiamide-abamectin and penoxsulam) to Chinese tiger frog (Hoplobatrachus chinensis) tadpoles with the method of stabi...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31270443,30970435);Technology Plan Project of Lishui(20110426);the College Students Technology Innovation Project in Zhejiang Province(2011R429008)
While developmental plasticity can facilitate evolutionary diversification of organisms, the effects of water levels as an environmental pressure on tiger frogs remains unclear. This study clarifies the relationship b...
National Natural Science Foundation of China(30770310,30970435);Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(Y307453)
We recorded and described the calls and acoustic characteristics of the male tiger frog,Hoplobatrachus rugulosus,in an artificial pond during mating season.Spectral and temporal call parameters,along with call intensi...
supported by the National Natural Science Fundation of China(30730029)
We investigated the early embryonic and larval development of the concave-eared torrent frogs, Odorrana tormota (Amphibia, Anura, Ranidae). Embryos were derived from artificial fertilization of frogs’ eggs, and the...
Leptodactylus labrosus is a terrestrial sit-and-wait predator; its diet includes ground-level, fossorial, and flying insects, and ants numerically predominate. Bothrops asper is recorded as a predator of L. labrosus. ...