Click here to close
Hello! We notice that you are using Internet Explorer, which is not supported by Xenbase and may cause the site to display incorrectly.
We suggest using a current version of Chrome,
FireFox, or Safari.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
2023 Aug 28;3781884:20220141. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0141.
Show Gene links
Show Anatomy links
Form, function, foam: evolutionary ecology of anuran nests and nesting behaviour.
Fischer EK.
???displayArticle.abstract???
Amphibians exhibit an incredible diversity of reproductive and life-history strategies, including various forms of nest construction and nesting behaviour. Although anuran amphibians (frogs and toads) are not known for their nests, nesting behaviour in this clade-broadly defined as a location chosen or constructed for eggs and young-is tightly linked to the amphibious lifestyle of this group. Transitions to increasingly terrestrial living have driven reproductive diversity in anurans, including the repeated, independent evolution of nests and nesting. Indeed, a core feature of many notable anuran adaptations-including nesting behaviour-is the maintenance of an aquatic environment for developing offspring. The tight link between increasingly terrestrial reproduction and morphological, physiological and behavioural diversity in anurans provides inroads for studying the evolutionary ecology of nests, their architects and their contents. This review provides an overview of nests and nesting behaviour in anurans, highlighting areas where additional work may be particularly fruitful. I take an intentionally broad view of what constitutes nesting to highlight what we can learn from thinking and researching comparatively across anurans and vertebrates more broadly. This article is part of the theme issue 'The evolutionary ecology of nests: a cross-taxon approach'.
Brown,
Divergence in parental care, habitat selection and larval life history between two species of Peruvian poison frogs: an experimental analysis.
2008, Pubmed
Brown,
Divergence in parental care, habitat selection and larval life history between two species of Peruvian poison frogs: an experimental analysis.
2008,
Pubmed Brown,
A key ecological trait drove the evolution of biparental care and monogamy in an amphibian.
2010,
Pubmed Brozio,
Frog nest foams exhibit pharmaceutical foam-like properties.
2021,
Pubmed Byrne,
Extreme sequential polyandry insures against nest failure in a frog.
2009,
Pubmed Clark,
Use of nest material as insecticidal and anti-pathogenic agents by the European Starling.
1985,
Pubmed D'Alba,
The evolution of eggshell cuticle in relation to nesting ecology.
2016,
Pubmed Dalgetty,
Building a home from foam--túngara frog foam nest architecture and three-phase construction process.
2010,
Pubmed Doody,
Communal egg-laying in reptiles and amphibians: evolutionary patterns and hypotheses.
2009,
Pubmed Fang,
Asynchronous evolution of interdependent nest characters across the avian phylogeny.
2018,
Pubmed Fischer,
Mechanisms of Convergent Egg Provisioning in Poison Frogs.
2019,
Pubmed Fleming,
Foam nest components of the túngara frog: a cocktail of proteins conferring physical and biological resilience.
2009,
Pubmed Fouilloux,
Pool choice in a vertical landscape: Tadpole-rearing site flexibility in phytotelm-breeding frogs.
2021,
Pubmed Furness,
The evolution of parental care diversity in amphibians.
2019,
Pubmed Gomez-Mestre,
Phylogenetic analyses reveal unexpected patterns in the evolution of reproductive modes in frogs.
2012,
Pubmed Hall,
From neurons to nests: nest-building behaviour as a model in behavioural and comparative neuroscience.
2015,
Pubmed Hayes,
To nest communally or not to nest communally: a review of rodent communal nesting and nursing.
2000,
Pubmed Heyer,
THE ADAPTIVE ECOLOGY OF THE SPECIES GROUPS OF THE GENUS LEPTODACTYLUS (AMPHIBIA, LEPTODACTYLIDAE).
1969,
Pubmed Hoke,
Sexually dimorphic sensory gating drives behavioral differences in tungara frogs.
2010,
Pubmed Hoke,
Social cues shift functional connectivity in the hypothalamus.
2005,
Pubmed Ishimatsu,
Patterns of Fish Reproduction at the Interface between Air and Water.
2018,
Pubmed Iyer,
Amphibian behavioral diversity offers insights into evolutionary neurobiology.
2021,
Pubmed Jourjine,
Expanding evolutionary neuroscience: insights from comparing variation in behavior.
2021,
Pubmed Kam,
Water balance, growth, development, and survival of arboreal frog eggs (Chirixalus eiffingeri, Rhacophoridae): importance of egg distribution in bamboo stumps.
1998,
Pubmed Kappeler,
Nests, tree holes, and the evolution of primate life histories.
1998,
Pubmed Liedtke,
The evolution of reproductive modes and life cycles in amphibians.
2022,
Pubmed Liu,
A cognitive map in a poison frog.
2019,
Pubmed Magnusson,
Predation and the evolution of complex oviposition behaviour in Amazon rainforest frogs.
1991,
Pubmed Mainwaring,
The design and function of birds' nests.
2014,
Pubmed Mainwaring,
Climate change and nesting behaviour in vertebrates: a review of the ecological threats and potential for adaptive responses.
2017,
Pubmed Medina,
Nest architecture is linked with ecological success in songbirds.
2022,
Pubmed Méndez-Narváez,
Foam nests provide context-dependent thermal insulation to embryos of three leptodactylid frogs.
2015,
Pubmed Murray,
The evolution of crocodilian nesting ecology and behavior.
2020,
Pubmed O'Connell,
Frank Beach Award Winner: Lessons from poison frogs on ecological drivers of behavioral diversification.
2020,
Pubmed Pašukonis,
The significance of spatial memory for water finding in a tadpole-transporting frog.
2016,
Pubmed Ringler,
Tadpole transport logistics in a Neotropical poison frog: indications for strategic planning and adaptive plasticity in anuran parental care.
2013,
Pubmed Ringler,
Adopt, ignore, or kill? Male poison frogs adjust parental decisions according to their territorial status.
2017,
Pubmed Roberts,
Evolution of central neural circuits: state of the art and perspectives.
2022,
Pubmed Rudolf,
Oviposition site selection in a complex and variable environment: the role of habitat quality and conspecific cues.
2005,
Pubmed Ruiz-Castellano,
Nest Material Shapes Eggs Bacterial Environment.
2016,
Pubmed Ruthsatz,
Patterns of temperature induced developmental plasticity in anuran larvae.
2018,
Pubmed Schulte,
A danger foreseen is a danger avoided: how chemical cues of different tadpoles influence parental decisions of a Neotropical poison frog.
2014,
Pubmed Seymour,
Embryonic and larval respiration in the arboreal foam nests of the African frog Chiromantis xerampelina.
1994,
Pubmed Soler,
The evolution of size of the uropygial gland: mutualistic feather mites and uropygial secretion reduce bacterial loads of eggshells and hatching failures of European birds.
2012,
Pubmed Suárez-Rodríguez,
Incorporation of cigarette butts into nests reduces nest ectoparasite load in urban birds: new ingredients for an old recipe?
2013,
Pubmed Summers,
The effects of cannibalism on Amazonian poison frog egg and tadpole deposition and survivorship in Heliconia axil pools.
1999,
Pubmed Taylor,
Complex sensory environments alter mate choice outcomes.
2021,
Pubmed Terrien,
Behavioral thermoregulation in mammals: a review.
2011,
Pubmed Wake,
Oviduct structure and function and reproductive modes in amphibians.
NULL,
Pubmed Warkentin,
Plasticity of hatching in amphibians: evolution, trade-offs, cues and mechanisms.
2011,
Pubmed Warkentin,
Adaptive plasticity in hatching age: a response to predation risk trade-offs.
1995,
Pubmed Weber,
Discrete genetic modules are responsible for complex burrow evolution in Peromyscus mice.
2013,
Pubmed Westrick,
The big potential of the small frog Eleutherodactylus coqui.
2022,
Pubmed Yang,
Mate Choice versus Mate Preference: Inferences about Color-Assortative Mating Differ between Field and Lab Assays of Poison Frog Behavior.
2019,
Pubmed Zamudio,
Polyandry, Predation, and the Evolution of Frog Reproductive Modes.
2016,
Pubmed Zhang,
Transcriptomic analysis of differentially expressed genes in the oviduct of Rhacophorus omeimontis provides insights into foam nest construction.
2019,
Pubmed
