funded through a grant from the NationalScience Foundation(IOS-1914646);the SmithsonianInstitute Postdoctoral Fellowship program.
Acoustic communication signals are important for species recognition and mate attraction across numerous taxa.For instance,most of thethousands of species of frogs have a species-specifc advertisement call that female...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.32270460);the Third Xinjiang Scientific Expedition Program(No.2021xjkk0605)。
Insect legs play a crucial role in various modes of locomotion,including walking,jumping,swimming,and other forms of movement.The flexibility of their leg joints is critical in enabling various modes of locomotion.The...
This work was funded through a standalone grant(FWF P 31518)from the Austrian Science Fund(FWF);MR was supported by an Erwin Schrodinger Grant(FWF J 3868);a standalone grant(FWF P 33728)from the Austrian Science Fund(FWF).
Animals constantly need to evaluate available external and internal information to make appropriate decisions.Identifying,assessing,and acting on relevant cues in contexts such as mate choice,intra-sexual competition,...
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 grants from the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2022YFC2602500);Biological Resources Programme,Chinese Academy of Sciences(KFJ-BRP-017-086)。
Dear Editor,The genus Liuixalus Li,Che,Bain,Zhao,and Zhang,2008 is a group of small-bodied Asian rhacophorid tree frogs and currently includes six species distributed in southern China and northern Vietnam(AmphibiaChi...
the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China Nos.32170504,31970422,and 31672305 to G.F.
The ability to discriminate species and recognize individuals is crucial for reproductive success and/or survival in most animals.However,the temporal order and neural localization of these decision-making processes h...
supported by the Biodiversity Survey and Assessment Project of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment,China(2019HJ2096001006);China Biodiversity Observation Networks(Sino BON);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31872220,U21A20192 and 31572245);the Natural Science Founda tion of Henan Province(202300410222);the Second National Survey of Terrestrial Wildlife Resources Project of the National Forestry and Grassland Bureau of China.
The Rana chensinensis species group is widely distributed throughout North China.However,its taxonomy and composition remain controversial.In recent field investigations of the Taihang Mountains,a series of Rana speci...
SISBIO provided collecting permit(#63297-1);This study was funded in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior—Brasil(CAPES)–Finance Code 001.CESF received a grant from the Fundação de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento do Ensino,Ciência e Tecnologia do Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul(#71/700.136);has been continuously supported by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico(grant#310058/2020-1);C.O.has been continuously supported by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico(grant#304552/2019-4).
Hematological parameters can provide key information to an animal health status.However,this information is usually hard to obtain.Here,we described the hematological parameters of Leptodactylus podicipinus in the Bra...
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...
supported by programs of the Biodiversity Survey and Assessment Project of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment,China(2019HJ2096001006);the Strategic Priority Research Program B of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)(No.XDB31000000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC 31460091);the National Animal Collection Resource Center,China(No.2005DKA21402);the Application of Amphibian Natural Antioxidant Peptides as Cosmetic Raw Material Antioxidants(No.QKZYD[2020]4002)。
We describe Odorrana liboensis sp.nov.,a new species from the Maolan National Nature Reserve,Libo County,Guizhou Province,China.Phylogenetic analyses based on DNA sequences of the mitochondrial 12 S rRNA,16 S rRNA,and...