ArticleEcology and evolution2024
It's not easy being green: Comparing typical skin colouration among amphibians with colour abnormalities associated with chromatophore deficits.
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- Guess Who: Delineating Post-Metamorphic Amphibian Life Stages and Sexes Using a Standardised Visible Approach.Journal of morphology · 2026Article
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- Colour Confusion: Reviewing Ambiguities in the Identification and Classification of Chromatophore Deficiencies Among Amphibians.Ecology and evolution · 2025Review
- Larval Pigmentation Reveals Environmental and Genetic Influences in Hybridizing Ambystoma Salamanders.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Meal or mate: Exploring the evidence of sexual cannibalism among amphibians.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- It's not easy being green: Comparing typical skin colouration among amphibians with colour abnormalities associated with chromatophore deficits.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
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Abstract
Amphibians can obtain their colour from a combination of several different pigment and light reflecting cell types called chromatophores, with defects in one or several of the cells leading to colour abnormalities. There is a need for better recording of colour abnormalities within wild amphibian populations, as this may provide baseline data that can be used to determine changes in environmental conditions and population dynamics, such as inbreeding. In this study, we provide records of several types of chromatophore deficiencies, including those involving iridophores, xanthophores and melanophores, among two Australian tree frog species; the green and golden bell frog,
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