| a new species of the fejervarya limnocharis complex from japan (anura, dicroglossidae). | we describe a new species of dicroglossid frog of the fejervarya limnocharis complex from western honshu, japan mainland. the new species, fejervarya kawamurai, is genetically closer to f. sakishimensis than to f. limnocharis. it differs from f. sakishimensis by smaller tympanum, head, forelimb, hindlimb, foot, and tibia lengths, all relative to snout-vent length, and from f. multistriata by relatively shorter forelimb, hindlimb, foot, and tibia. from f. limnocharis and f. iskandari, it is diffe ... | 2011 | 22132790 |
| spontaneous tyrosinase mutations identified in albinos of three wild frog species. | the present study reports spontaneous tyrosinase gene mutations identified in oculocutaneous albinos of three japanese wild frog species, pelophylax nigromaculatus, glandirana rugosa and fejervarya kawamurai. this represents the first molecular analyses of albinic phenotypes in frogs. albinos of p. nigromaculatus collected from two different populations were found to suffer from frameshift mutations. these mutations were caused by the insertion of a thymine residue within each of exons 1 and 4, ... | 2017 | 28674275 |