Amphibian Biology, Volume 8.

Amphibian biology and husbandry.

Extant amphibians comprise three lineages-- salamanders (Urodela or Caudata), frogs and toads (Anura), and caecilians (Gymnophiona, Apoda, or Caecilia)--which contain more than 6,000 species. Fewer than a dozen species of amphibians are commonly maintained in laboratory colonies, and the husbandry requirements for the vast majority of amphibians are poorly known. For these species, a review of ...

Editorial, Volume 8, Issue 1

A new vocabulary item has been added to English dictionaries: Covid-19. For linguists, the addition of a meaningful linguistic element to any language should change the whole language as, for T. S. Eliot, a new poem changes the whole literature of a nation. But let us see how seriously the addition of the vocabulary item Covid-19 might change the English language. According to Cambridge online ...

A new century of amphibian developmental biology.

Amphibian embryology has a long, rich history tracing back more than century in the recorded literature. Newt, salamander and frog embryos collected in the wild and subject to the keen minds and crafty hands of early embryologists yielded some of the most important first principals of developmental biology, including those of fate maps, egg polarity, embryo polarity, the concept of specificatio...

Abstracts in Persian, Volume 8, Issue 1

A Two-Barrier Compartment Model for Volume Flow across Amphibian Skin Running title: volume flow across amphibian skin