Frog limbs in deep time: is jumping locomotion at the roots of the anuran Bauplan?

Triassic stem caecilian supports dissorophoid origin of living amphibians

(2023) Ben T. Kligman et al.   NATURE

Comparative osteology of paradoxical frogs (Hylidae: Pseudae) with comments on diagnostic features, evolutionary trends and potential aquatic adaptations

(2023) Guillermo F. Turazzini et al.   ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER

Ontogeny of the anuran urostyle and the developmental context of evolutionary novelty

(2020) Gayani Senevirathne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Anuran limbs reflect microhabitat and distal, later‐developing bones are more evolutionarily labile

(2020) Natasha Stepanova et al.   EVOLUTION

Evolution of the unique anuran pelvic and hindlimb skeleton in relation to microhabitat, locomotor mode, and jump performance

(2020) S M Buttimer et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Phylogenomics Reveals Ancient Gene Tree Discordance in the Amphibian Tree of Life

(2020) Paul M Hime et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Patterns of correlations and locomotor specialization in anuran limbs: association with phylogeny and ecology

(2020) Tamara G. Petrović et al.   ZOOLOGY

Phylogeny of Paleozoic limbed vertebrates reassessed through revision and expansion of the largest published relevant data matrix

(2019) David Marjanović et al.   PeerJ

The earliest equatorial record of frogs from the Late Triassic of Arizona

(2019) Michelle R. Stocker et al.   Biology Letters

Redescription of the overlooked basal frog Wealdenbatrachus reveals increased diversity among Early Cretaceous anurans

(2019) Ana M. Báez et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

High ecomorphological diversity among Early Cretaceous frogs from a large subtropical wetland of Iberia

(2019) Raúl O. Gómez et al.   COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL

ape 5.0: an environment for modern phylogenetics and evolutionary analyses in R

(2018) Emmanuel Paradis et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Evolution of morphology and locomotor performance in anurans: relationships with microhabitat diversification

(2018) J. M. Citadini et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

RRPP : An r package for fitting linear models to high-dimensional data using residual randomization

(2018) Michael L. Collyer et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

Osteological postcranial traits in hylid anurans indicate a morphological continuum between swimming and jumping locomotor modes

(2017) Mónica Soliz et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

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

A new pipid frog from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia and early evolution of crown-group Pipidae

(2016) Raúl O. Gómez   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

Walk before you jump: new insights on early frog locomotion from the oldest known salientian

(2016) Andrés I. Lires et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Xenopus in Space and Time: Fossils, Node Calibrations, Tip-Dating, and Paleobiogeography

(2015) David Cannatella   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

Patterns of morphological integration in the appendicular skeleton of mammalian carnivores

(2015) Alberto Martín-Serra et al.   EVOLUTION

Locomotor Mode and the Evolution of the Hindlimb in Western Mediterranean Anurans

(2015) Urtzi Enriquez-Urzelai et al.   Evolutionary Biology

Testing Convergence Versus History: Convergence Dominates Phenotypic Evolution for over 150 Million Years in Frogs

(2015) Daniel S. Moen et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Shared rules of development predict patterns of evolution in vertebrate segmentation

(2015) Nathan M. Young et al.   Nature Communications

Biogeographic Analysis Reveals Ancient Continental Vicariance and Recent Oceanic Dispersal in Amphibians

(2014) R. Alexander Pyron   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic patterns of skeletal morphometrics and pelvic traits in relation to locomotor mode in frogs

(2013) M. E. Jorgensen et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Anurans from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol Group of Western Liaoning, China

(2013) Liping Dong et al.   PLoS One

An updated paleontological timetree of lissamphibians, with comments on the anatomy of Jurassic crown-group salamanders (Urodela)

(2013) David Marjanović et al.   HISTORICAL BIOLOGY

Anurans from the Early Cretaceous Lagerstätte of Las Hoyas, Spain: New evidence on the Mesozoic diversification of crown-clade Anura

(2012) Ana María Báez   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

The Forelimb of Early Miocene Sloths (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Folivora): Morphometrics and Functional Implications for Substrate Preferences

(2012) N. Toledo et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

The archaic ilial morphology of an enigmatic pipid frog from the upper Pleistocene of the South American pampas

(2012) Ana M. Báez et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

PHYLOGENETIC VERSUS FUNCTIONAL SIGNALS IN THE EVOLUTION OF FORM-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS IN TERRESTRIAL VISION

(2011) Ryosuke Motani et al.   EVOLUTION

MONOTREME OSSIFICATION SEQUENCES AND THE RIDDLE OF MAMMALIAN SKELETAL DEVELOPMENT

(2011) Vera Weisbecker   EVOLUTION

Anuran radiations and the evolution of tadpole morphospace

(2011) K. Roelants et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

Assessing Confidence Intervals for Stratigraphic Ranges of Higher Taxa: The Case of Lissamphibia

(2010) David Marjanović et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

phangorn: phylogenetic analysis in R

(2010) Klaus Peter Schliep   BIOINFORMATICS

The evolution of jumping in frogs: Morphological evidence for the basal anuran locomotor condition and the radiation of locomotor systems in crown group anurans

(2010) Stephen M. Reilly et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Landing in basal frogs: evidence of saltational patterns in the evolution of anuran locomotion

(2010) Richard L. Essner et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

First finding of fish in the diet of a water-dwelling extinct frog Palaeobatrachus from the Upper Oligocene Fossil-Lagerstätte Enspel (Westerwald Mountains, Western Germany)

(2010) Michael Wuttke et al.   Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

Anurans from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of northeastern Brazil: implications for the early divergence of neobatrachians

(2009) Ana M. Báez et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

Pelvic and thigh musculature in frogs (Anura) and origin of anuran jumping locomotion

(2009) Tomáš Přikryl et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Focal Review: The Origin(s) of Modern Amphibians

(2008) Jason S. Anderson   Evolutionary Biology