Amphibians are a clade of over 8,400 species that provide unique research opportunities
and challenges. With amphibians undergoing severe global declines, we posit that …

Molecular phylogenies have yielded strong support for many parts of the amphibian Tree of
Life, but poor support for the resolution of deeper nodes, including relationships among …

Large-scale, time-calibrated phylogenies from supermatrix studies have become crucial for
evolutionary and ecological studies in many groups of organisms. However, in frogs (anuran …

Phylogenomic subsampling is a procedure by which small sets of loci are selected from
large genome-scale data sets and used for phylogenetic inference. This step is often …

Transparency in animals is a complex form of camouflage involving mechanisms that reduce
light scattering and absorption throughout the organism. In vertebrates, attaining …

Simple Summary Polyploidization, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), represents a
dramatic event in evolution. Although its occurrence is much rarer in animals than in plants …

Many organisms have evolved adaptations to increase the odds of survival of their offspring.
Parental care has evolved several times in animals including ectotherms. In amphibians …

The data available for reconstructing molecular phylogenies have become wildly disparate.
Phylogenomic studies can generate data for thousands of genetic markers for dozens of …

Alignment is a crucial issue in molecular phylogenetics because different alignment
methods can potentially yield very different topologies for individual genes. But it is unclear if …

Malagasy frogs of the subgenus Brygoomantis in the mantellid frog genus Mantidactylus
currently comprise 14 described species of mostly brown, riparian frogs. Data from DNA …