| thermal acclimation of metabolic rate may be seasonally dependent in the subtropical anuran latouche's frog (rana latouchii, boulenger). | we tested the hypothesis that the lack of metabolic thermal acclimation ability in tropical and subtropical amphibians is dependent on season and investigated the effects of body size, sex, time of day, and season on metabolic rates in rana latouchii. the males were acclimated at 15 degrees, 20 degrees, and 25 degrees c, and their oxygen consumption was measured at 15 degrees, 20 degrees, 25 degrees, and 30 degrees c in all four seasons, with the exception that we did not measure oxygen consumpt ... | 2006 | 16228934 |
| phylogeography of sylvirana latouchii (anura, ranidae) in taiwan. | biogeographic studies are important for understanding the natural history of faunas. to comprehend the geographical patterns of genetic variation in anurans in taiwan, we investigated the genetic structure of sylvirana latouchii (anura, ranidae) from 31 populations by using mitochondrial dna (mtdna) cytochrome b sequences. a neighbor-joining tree of 38 haplotypes revealed three major divergences in taiwanese s. latouchii: the northern, western, and eastern-and-southern clades. each clade was res ... | 2008 | 18275248 |