ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2019
Parental care and the evolution of terrestriality in frogs.
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- Evolution of reproductive strategies: sex roles, sex ratios and phylogenies.Biologia futura · 2023Review
- What Amphibians Can Teach Us About the Evolution of Parental Care.Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics · 2023Article
- Influence of microhabitat, fecundity, and parental care on the evolution of sexual size dimorphism in Caribbean Eleutherodactylus frogs.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2022Article
- The evolution of reproductive modes and life cycles in amphibians.Nature communications · 2022Article
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- The big potential of the small frogeLife · 2022Review
- Terrestrial reproduction and parental care drive rapid evolution in the trade-off between offspring size and number across amphibians.PLoS biology · 2022Article
- Aposematism facilitates the diversification of parental care strategies in poison frogs.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Pool choice in a vertical landscape: Tadpole-rearing site flexibility in phytotelm-breeding frogs.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Different solutions lead to similar life history traits across the great divides of the amniote tree of life.Journal of biological research (Thessalonike, Greece) · 2021Review
- Alloparental care in glassfrogs: males care for unrelated clutches only when associated with their own.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
Frogs and toads (Anura) exhibit some of the most diverse parental strategies in vertebrates. Identifying the evolutionary origins of parenting is fundamental to understanding the relationships between sexual selection, social evolution and parental care systems of contemporary Anura. Moreover, parenting has been hypothesized to allow the invasion of terrestrial habitats by the ancestors of terrestrial vertebrates. Using comprehensive phylogenetic analyses of frogs and toads based on data from over 1000 species that represent 46 out of 55 Anura families, we test whether parental care is associated with terrestrial reproduction and several life-history traits. Here, we show that both the duration of care and offspring protection by males and females have coevolved with terrestrial reproduction. Sexual size dimorphism is also related to care, because the large male size relative to female size is associated with increased paternal care. Furthermore, increased egg size and reduced clutch volume are associated with increased care in bivariate but not in multivariate analyses, suggesting that the relationships between care, egg size and clutch volume are mediated by terrestrial reproduction. Taken together, our results suggest that parenting by males and females has coevolved, and complex parenting traits have evolved several times independently in Anura in response to breeding in terrestrial environments.
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