Parental care and the evolution of terrestriality in frogs

The interplay of past diversification and evolutionary isolation with present imperilment across the amphibian tree of life

(2018) Walter Jetz et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Patterns of parental care in Neotropical glassfrogs: fieldwork alters hypotheses of sex-role evolution

(2017) J. Delia et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Phylogenomics reveals rapid, simultaneous diversification of three major clades of Gondwanan frogs at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary

(2017) Yan-Jie Feng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Polyandry, Predation, and the Evolution of Frog Reproductive Modes

(2016) Kelly R. Zamudio et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Intraspecific and interspecific competition for mates: Rana temporaria males are effective satyrs of Rana dalmatina females

(2016) Balázs Vági et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

The evolution of parental investment in caecilian amphibians: a comparative approach

(2016) Alexander Kupfer et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Male care and life history traits in mammals

(2016) Hannah E. R. West et al.   Nature Communications

Darwinian sex roles confirmed across the animal kingdom

(2016) T. Janicke et al.   Science Advances

Flexible compensation of uniparental care: female poison frogs take over when males disappear

(2015) Eva Ringler et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

The evolution of parental cooperation in birds

(2015) Vladimír Remeš et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Novel Reproductive Mode in Frogs: A New Species of Fanged Frog with Internal Fertilization and Birth of Tadpoles

(2015) Djoko T. Iskandar et al.   PLoS One

Social Role Specialization Promotes Cooperation between Parents

(2014) Zoltán Barta et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Male body size and parental relatedness but not nuptial colouration influence paternity success during scramble competition in Rana arvalis

(2014) Anna M. Rausch et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Mud-packing frog: A novel breeding behaviour and parental care in a stream dwelling new species of Nyctibatrachus (Amphibia, Anura, Nyctibatrachidae)

(2014) KOTAMBYLU VASUDEVA GURURAJA et al.   ZOOTAXA

Sexual size dimorphism is not associated with the evolution of parental care in frogs

(2014) Melanie J. Monroe et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The parental investment models of Maynard Smith: a retrospective and prospective view

(2013) Alasdair I. Houston et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Does life history shape sexual size dimorphism in anurans? A comparative analysis

(2013) Xu Han et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Adaptive Significance of Egg Attendance in a South-East Asian Tree Frog

(2013) Sinlan Poo et al.   ETHOLOGY

Amazon poison frogs (Ranitomeya amazonica) use different phytotelm characteristics to determine their suitability for egg and tadpole deposition

(2013) Erik H. Poelman et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Predator driven reproductive behavior in a tropical frog

(2013) C. Seabird McKeon et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

The power of the seasons: rainfall triggers parental care in poison frogs

(2013) Lisa M. Schulte et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Brave New Propagules: Terrestrial Embryos in Anamniotic Eggs

(2013) K. L. Martin et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Why care? Inferring the evolution of complex social behaviour

(2013) T. Székely et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSES REVEAL UNEXPECTED PATTERNS IN THE EVOLUTION OF REPRODUCTIVE MODES IN FROGS

(2012) Ivan Gomez-Mestre et al.   EVOLUTION

A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia including over 2800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs, salamanders, and caecilians

(2011) R. Alexander Pyron et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A Key Ecological Trait Drove the Evolution of Biparental Care and Monogamy in an Amphibian

(2010) Jason L. Brown et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Intraspecific variation in the egg-wrapping behaviour of female smooth newts, Lissotriton vulgaris

(2010) Zoltán Tóth et al.   AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA

The radiation of microhylid frogs (Amphibia: Anura) on New Guinea: A mitochondrial phylogeny reveals parallel evolution of morphological and life history traits and disproves the current morphology-based classification

(2007) Frank Köhler et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION