ArticleBiology letters2010
Building a home from foam--túngara frog foam nest architecture and three-phase construction process.
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- Courtship at reaching-range in the túngara frog.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026Article
- Adhesive properties of Aphrophoridae spittlebug foam.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2024Article
- Nest construction in mammals: a review of the patterns of construction and functional roles.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- The evolutionary ecology of nests: a cross-taxon approach.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Form, function, foam: evolutionary ecology of anuran nests and nesting behaviour.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Reproductive colonization of land by frogs: Embryos and larvae excrete urea to avoid ammonia toxicity.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Evolutionary kinematics of spinneret movements for rapid silk thread anchorage in spiders.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2021Article
- Developments in Amphibian Parental Care Research: History, Present Advances, and Future Perspectives.Herpetological monograph · 2020Article
- Transcriptomic analysis of differentially expressed genes in the oviduct of Rhacophorus omeimontis provides insights into foam nest construction.BMC genomics · 2019Article
- Surface Activity and Foaming Capacity of Aggregates Formed between an Anionic Surfactant and Non-Cellulosics Leached from Wood Fibers.Biomacromolecules · 2019Article
- Frog foams and natural protein surfactants.Colloids and surfaces. A, Physicochemical and engineering aspects · 2017Article
- Neural control of maternal and paternal behaviors.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2014Review
- Biofoams and natural protein surfactants.Biophysical chemistry · 2010Review
- Developmental diversity of amphibians.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Developmental biologyReview
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Abstract
Frogs that build foam nests floating on water face the problems of over-dispersion of the secretions used and eggs being dangerously exposed at the foam : air interface. Nest construction behaviour of túngara frogs, Engystomops pustulosus, has features that may circumvent these problems. Pairs build nests in periodic bursts of foam production and egg deposition, three discrete phases being discernible. The first is characterized by a bubble raft without egg deposition and an approximately linear increase in duration of mixing events with time. This phase may reduce initial over-dispersion of foam precursor materials until a critical concentration is achieved. The main building phase is marked by mixing events and start-to-start intervals being nearly constant in duration. During the final phase, mixing events do not change in duration but intervals between them increase in an exponential-like fashion. Pairs joining a colonial nesting abbreviate their initial phase, presumably by exploiting a pioneer pair's bubble raft, thereby reducing energy and material expenditure, and time exposed to predators. Finally, eggs are deposited only in the centre of nests with a continuously produced, approximately 1 cm deep egg-free cortex that protectively encloses hatched larvae in stranded nests.
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