We thank the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China(31970393);the Key Project of Science and Technology of Sichuan Province(22NSFSC0011)for supporting our study.
Dear Editor,Selective pressures emerging from the environmental complexity can drive variation in vertebrate brain size(Sol et al.2005;Sayol et al.2016).It is generally agreed that larger brains can confer better cogn...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (31772464);Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS (2012274)。
In anurans, calling behaviour is strongly seasonal and circadian. Previous studies have revealed that a uditory sensitivity in frogs exhibits seasonal plasticity, and electroencephalographic signals exhibit highly cor...
As the moon rises above the treetops startling the magpies perched on the branches,a cool evening breeze carries the distant crooning of cicadas.In the scented ricefields,frogs croak as if chattering aboutthecoming of...
Vocalizations play a critical role in mate recognition and mate choice in a number of taxa, especially, but not limited to, orthopterans, frogs, and birds. But receivers can only recognize and prefer sounds that they ...
In How to Read Lacan, noted cultural theorist, Slavoj Zizek, addresses a "comedic," British, beer commercial to highlight an element of Lacanian psychoanalysis (i.e., obj et petit a). Although his use of the comm...
The current study aims to investigate the population variation and food habits of ranid frogs in the rice-based cropping system in District Gujranwala,Pakistan.The population in the study area was estimated using capt...
the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province (C9726).
The Random Amplified Polymorphism DNA (RAPD) markers were used to stu dy the intra-specific diversity and regional differentiation of the Chinese fore st frogs (Rana chensinensis), which were sampled from the fields o...
Visual responses of 125 units have been extracellularly recorded with glass micropipettesfrom the left nucleus isthmi in the frog Rana nigromaculata, and 101 electrode tip positionsmarked with cobalt staining to recon...