Morphological and ecological convergence at the lower size limit for vertebrates highlighted by five new miniaturised microhylid frog species from three different Madagascan genera

A large-scale phylogeny of Microhylidae inferred from a combined dataset of 121 genes and 427 taxa

(2018) Na Tu et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Diversity of miniaturized frogs of the genus Adelophryne (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae): A new species from the Atlantic Forest of northeast Brazil

(2018) Ricardo Lourenço-de-Moraes et al.   PLoS One

Multiple connections between Amazonia and Atlantic Forest shaped the phylogenetic and morphological diversity of Chiasmocleis Mehely, 1904 (Anura: Microhylidae: Gastrophryninae)

(2018) Rafael O. de Sá et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Nomenclatural stability does not justify recognition of paraphyletic taxa: A response to Scherz et al. (2016)

(2017) Pedro L.V. Peloso et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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 review of the taxonomy and osteology of the Rhombophryne serratopalpebrosa species group (Anura: Microhylidae) from Madagascar, with comments on the value of volume rendering of micro-CT data to taxonomists

(2017) MARK D. SCHERZ et al.   ZOOTAXA

The use of bioacoustics in anuran taxonomy: theory, terminology, methods and recommendations for best practice

(2017) JÖRN KÖHLER et al.   ZOOTAXA

Seven new species of Night Frogs (Anura, Nyctibatrachidae) from the Western Ghats Biodiversity Hotspot of India, with remarkably high diversity of diminutive forms

(2017) Sonali Garg et al.   PeerJ

Mountain colonisation, miniaturisation and ecological evolution in a radiation of direct-developing New Guinea Frogs (Choerophryne, Microhylidae)

(2017) Paul M. Oliver et al.   PeerJ

Three new species of the microhylid frog genus Choerophryne (Amphibia, Anura, Microhylidae) from Papua New Guinea

(2017) Rainer Günther et al.   Zoosystematics and Evolution

MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 7.0 for Bigger Datasets

(2016) Sudhir Kumar et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Reconciling molecular phylogeny, morphological divergence and classification of Madagascan narrow-mouthed frogs (Amphibia: Microhylidae)

(2016) Mark D. Scherz et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The impact of anchored phylogenomics and taxon sampling on phylogenetic inference in narrow-mouthed frogs (Anura, Microhylidae)

(2015) Pedro L.V. Peloso et al.   CLADISTICS

Genetic divergence in tropical anurans: deeper phylogeographic structure in forest specialists and in topographically complex regions

(2015) Ariel Rodríguez et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Two New Microhylid Frogs of the Genus Rhombophryne with Superciliary Spines from the Tsaratanana Massif in Northern Madagascar

(2015) Mark D. Scherz et al.   HERPETOLOGICA

Seven new microendemic species ofBrachycephalus(Anura: Brachycephalidae) from southern Brazil

(2015) Luiz F. Ribeiro et al.   PeerJ

Leaping towards a saltatorial lifestyle? An unusually long-legged new species of Rhombophryne (Anura, Microhylidae) from the Sorata massif in northern Madagascar

(2015) Mark D. Scherz et al.   Zoosystematics and Evolution

Taxonomic revision of one of the Old World's smallest frogs, with description of a new Bornean Microhyla (Amphibia, Microhylidae)

(2015) M. Matsui   ZOOTAXA

DNA barcoding Madagascar’s amphibian fauna

(2014) R.G. Bina Perl et al.   AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA

Phylogeny, Taxonomic Revision, and Character Evolution of the GeneraChiasmocleisandSyncope(Anura, Microhylidae) in Amazonia, with Descriptions of Three New Species

(2014) Pedro L.V. Peloso et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Molecular systematics of terraranas (Anura: Brachycephaloidea) with an assessment of the effects of alignment and optimality criteria

(2014) JOSÉ M. PADIAL et al.   ZOOTAXA

Genetic diversity, phylogeny and evolution of alkaloid sequestering in Cuban miniaturized frogs of the Eleutherodactylus limbatus group

(2013) Ariel Rodríguez et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Molecular, morphological and osteological differentiation of a new species of microhylid frog of the genus Stumpffia from northwestern Madagascar

(2013) JOHANNES KLAGES et al.   ZOOTAXA

To name or not to name: Criteria to promote economy of change in Linnaean classification schemes

(2013) MIGUEL VENCES et al.   ZOOTAXA

Molecular phylogeny of microhylid frogs (Anura: Microhylidae) with emphasis on relationships among New World genera

(2012) Rafael O de Sá et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Ecological Guild Evolution and the Discovery of the World's Smallest Vertebrate

(2012) Eric N. Rittmeyer et al.   PLoS One

Terrestrialization, Miniaturization and Rates of Diversification in African Puddle Frogs (Anura: Phrynobatrachidae)

(2012) Breda M. Zimkus et al.   PLoS One

Cryptic diversity and morphological convergence in threatened species of fossorial skinks in the genus Scelotes (Squamata: Scincidae) from the Western Cape Coast of South Africa: Implications for species boundaries, digit reduction and conservation

(2011) Neil J.L. Heideman et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Molecular phylogenetic relationships and phenotypic diversity in miniaturized toadlets, genus Brachycephalus (Amphibia: Anura: Brachycephalidae)

(2011) Rute B.G. Clemente-Carvalho et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

At the lower size limit for tetrapods, two new species of the miniaturized frog genus Paedophryne (Anura, Microhylidae)

(2011) Fred Kraus   ZooKeys

Not just small, wet, and cold: effects of body size and skin resistance on thermoregulation and arboreality of frogs

(2010) Christopher R. Tracy et al.   ECOLOGY

New genus of diminutive microhylid frogs from Papua New Guinea

(2010) Fred Kraus   ZooKeys

Molecular phylogenetics reveals extreme morphological homoplasy in Brazilian worm lizards challenging current taxonomy

(2009) Tamí Mott et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Vast underestimation of Madagascar's biodiversity evidenced by an integrative amphibian inventory

(2009) D. R. Vieites et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

PATTERNS OF ENDEMISM AND SPECIES RICHNESS IN MALAGASY COPHYLINE FROGS SUPPORT A KEY ROLE OF MOUNTAINOUS AREAS FOR SPECIATION

(2008) Katharina C. Wollenberg et al.   EVOLUTION

A Minute New Ecuadorian Andean Frog (Anura: Strabomantidae, Pristimantis)

(2008) Edgar Lehr et al.   HERPETOLOGICA

Biogeography and evolution of body size and life history of African frogs: Phylogeny of squeakers (Arthroleptis) and long-fingered frogs (Cardioglossa) estimated from mitochondrial data

(2008) D BLACKBURN   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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