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The evolution of jumping performance in anurans: morphological correlates and ecological implications
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009-05-01)
We investigated the evolution of anuran locomotor performance and its morphological correlates as a function of habitat use and lifestyles. We reanalysed a subset of the data reported by Zug (Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 1978; ...
The evolution of jumping performance in anurans: morphological correlates and ecological implications
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009-05-01)
We investigated the evolution of anuran locomotor performance and its morphological correlates as a function of habitat use and lifestyles. We reanalysed a subset of the data reported by Zug (Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 1978; ...
Limb development in vertebrates Desarrollo de los miembros en los vertebrados
(2012)
Members of vertebrates are complex structures with three lines to consider, proximal-distal, anterior-posterior and dorsal-ventral. The battery of genes involved in the formation of these structures is well conserved in ...
Repeated modification of early limb morphogenesis programmes underlies the convergence of relative limb length in Anolis lizards
The independent evolution of similar morphologies has long been a subject of considerable interest to biologists. Does phenotypic convergence reflect the primacy of natural selection, or does development set the course of ...
Sexual differences in locomotor performance in Tropidurus catalanensis lizards (Squamata: Tropiduridae) – body shape, size and limb musculature explain variation between males and females
(Wiley, 2015-12)
Sexual dimorphism (SD) is the evolutionary outcome of selection acting differently on males and females. Several studies describe sexual differences in body size, although other morphological traits might be allometric ...
Embryonic development of the fossorial gymnophthalmid lizards Nothobachia ablephara and Calyptommatus sinebrachiatus
(ELSEVIER GMBH, URBAN & FISCHER VERLAGJENA, 2012)
The evolutionary history of the lizard family Gymnophthalmidae is characterized by several independent events of morphological modifications to a snake-like body plan, such as limb reduction, body elongation, loss of ...
Effects of different substrates on the sprint performance of lizards
(Company of Biologists, 2012-02)
The variation in substrate structure is one of the most important determinants of the locomotor abilities in lizards. Lizards are found across a gradient of habitats from large rocks to loose sand, each of them with ...
Comparative Morphometrics in Leptodactyline Frogs (Anura, Leptodactylidae, Leptodactylinae): Does Burrowing Behavior Relate to Sexual Dimorphism?
(Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 2016-12)
Fossorial habits occur in many animal lineages and usually involve both morphological and physiological adaptations that may evolve independently. Burrowing behavior in some species of the anuran subfamily Leptodactylinae ...
Skeletal development in the fossorial gymnophthalmids Calyptommatus sinebrachiatus and Nothobachia ablephara
(ELSEVIER GMBH, URBAN & FISCHER VERLAGJENA, 2012)
The development of the cartilaginous and bony elements that form the skull and axial and appendicular skeleton is described in detail for the post-ovipositional embryonic development of the fossorial gymnophthalmid species ...