Factors Affecting Population Fluctuations in Larval and Adult Stages of the Wood Frog (Rana Sylvatica)

Ecology ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 1599-1608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith A. Berven
Keyword(s):  
Rana Sylvatica ◽  
Wood Frog ◽  
Population Fluctuations ◽  
Factors Affecting

Kin recognition in wood frog tadpoles (Rana sylvatica): factors affecting spatial proximity to siblings

1991 ◽  
Vol 69 (10) ◽  
pp. 2569-2571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah A. Rautio ◽  
Elizabeth A. Bura ◽  
Keith A. Berven ◽  
George J. Gamboa
Keyword(s):  
Kin Recognition ◽  
Rana Sylvatica ◽  
Wood Frog ◽  
Spatial Proximity ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Recognition Ability ◽  
Frog Tadpoles ◽  
Sibling Recognition

In blind laboratory observations, we investigated three factors affecting spatial proximity to full siblings in wood frog (Rana sylvatica) tadpoles. In the first set of observations, we provided tadpoles the opportunity to associate with (i) siblings or no larvae and (ii) nonkin or no larvae. Tadpoles associated preferentially with siblings over no larvae, but showed no preference for either nonkin or no larvae. Thus tadpoles associate with siblings because they are attracted to kin rather than repulsed by nonkin. In a second set of observations, 10-day-old tadpoles failed to display sibling recognition, while 17-day-old tadpoles displayed a significant sibling preference. Furthermore, 17-day-old tadpoles spent significantly more time with siblings than did 10-day-old tadpoles. Thus, age affects sibling preference in wood frog tadpoles. When retested several days later, the former 17-day-old tadpoles again displayed a significant kin preference. However, there was no significant correlation in kin preference between a tadpole's first and second test. This and another comparison indicate that all wood frog tadpoles possess recognition ability, and that the failure of some tadpoles to manifest sibling preference is not due to a lack of recognition ability.

Growth of the Wood Frog, Rana sylvatica

Copeia ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 1961 (1) ◽  
pp. 74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward D. Bellis
Keyword(s):  
Rana Sylvatica ◽  
Wood Frog

Distribution of the middorsal stripe dimorphism in the wood frog, Rana sylvatica, in eastern North America

1980 ◽  
Vol 58 (9) ◽  
pp. 1643-1651 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick W. Schueler ◽  
Francis R. Cook
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
Rana Sylvatica ◽  
Wood Frog ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Hudson Bay ◽  
Northeastern United States ◽  
Southern Ontario ◽  
Maritime Canada ◽  
Eurasian Species

The frequency of the middorsally striped morph of Rana sylvatica in Ontario and Manitoba varies from absence in southern Ontario to 80% on the coast of Hudson Bay, with a general value of 20–30% in the boreal forest, a rise to 50% on the forest–grassland ecotone in southern Manitoba, and a decline westward to 20% on the edge of the prairies. This morph is rare in the northeastern United States and Maritime Canada. The suggested relationship between its frequency and the "grassiness" of the background on which predators view it is reexamined, and it is suggested that a linkage with earlier transformation as demonstrated in Eurasian species may explain certain anomalies.

Freeze-induced expression of a novel gene, fr47, in the liver of the freeze-tolerant wood frog, Rana sylvatica

2003 ◽  
Vol 1625 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.Dayre McNally ◽  
Christopher M Sturgeon ◽  
Kenneth B Storey
Keyword(s):  
Rana Sylvatica ◽  
Wood Frog ◽  
Induced Expression ◽  
Novel Gene ◽  
Freeze Tolerant

scholarly journals Regulation of 5'-adenosine monophosphate deaminase in the freeze tolerant wood frog, Rana sylvatica

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher A Dieni ◽  
Kenneth B Storey
Keyword(s):  
Rana Sylvatica ◽  
Adenosine Monophosphate ◽  
Wood Frog ◽  
Freeze Tolerant

Freeze-thaw injury in erythrocytes of the freeze-tolerant wood frog, Rana sylvatica

1991 ◽  
Vol 261 (6) ◽  
pp. R1346-R1350 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Costanzo ◽  
R. E. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Cell Injury ◽  
Osmotic Fragility ◽  
Rana Sylvatica ◽  
Freeze Tolerance ◽  
Wood Frog ◽  
In Vitro Tests ◽  
Freezing And Thawing ◽  
Freeze Tolerant ◽  
High Concentrations

Erythrocytes from the freeze-tolerant wood frog (Rana sylvatica) were subjected to in vitro tests of freeze tolerance, cryoprotection, and osmotic fragility. The responses of cells from frogs acclimated to 4 or 15 degrees C were similar. Erythrocytes that were frozen in saline hemolyzed at -4 degrees C or lower. The addition of high concentrations (150 and 1,500 mM) of glucose or glycerol, cryoprotectants produced naturally by freeze-tolerant frogs, significantly reduced cell injury at -8 degrees C, but concentrations of 1.5 or 15 mM were ineffective. Hemolysis was reduced by 94% with 1,500 mM glycerol and by 84% with 1,500 mM glucose; thus glycerol was the more effective cryoprotectant. Mean fragility values for frog erythrocytes incubated in hypertonic and hypotonic saline were 1,938 and 49 mosM, respectively. Survival in freeze tolerance and cryoprotection experiments was comparable for erythrocytes from frogs and humans, suggesting that these cells may respond similarly to freezing-related stresses. However, the breadth of osmotic tolerance, standardized for differences in isotonicity, was greater for frog erythrocytes than for human erythrocytes. Our data suggest that erythrocytes from R. sylvatica are adequately protected by glucose under natural conditions of freezing and thawing.

Enzymatic regulation of seasonal glycogen cycling in the freeze-tolerant wood frog, Rana sylvatica

2016 ◽  
Vol 186 (8) ◽  
pp. 1045-1058 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Clara F. do Amaral ◽  
Richard E. Lee ◽  
Jon P. Costanzo
Keyword(s):  
Rana Sylvatica ◽  
Wood Frog ◽  
Enzymatic Regulation ◽  
Freeze Tolerant

Kin recognition by tadpoles and froglets of the wood frog Rana sylvatica

Oecologia ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 312-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Cornell ◽  
Keith A. Berven ◽  
George J. Gamboa
Keyword(s):  
Kin Recognition ◽  
Rana Sylvatica ◽  
Wood Frog

Sexual differences in color and color change in wood frogs

1991 ◽  
Vol 69 (7) ◽  
pp. 1963-1968 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. King ◽  
Bethia King
Keyword(s):  
Color Change ◽  
Red Light ◽  
Green Light ◽  
Rana Sylvatica ◽  
Sexual Differences ◽  
Wood Frog ◽  
Color Classification ◽  
Wood Frogs ◽  
Evolutionary Response ◽  
Males And Females

An observer-free method of color classification was used to determine whether wood frogs, Rana sylvatica, exhibit sexual differences in color and color change. Males and females captured from breeding aggregations differed significantly in color: females reflected a greater amount of long-wavelength (yellow–red) light and less short-wavelength (blue–green) light than males. The color difference was not just a result of differences in the state of physiological color change at the time of capture but persisted for a month after capture. Males and females also differed in their color-change responses to black and white backgrounds: both sexes changed in brightness, but only males changed in the relative amount of light reflected at different wavelengths. Wood frog color may function in predator avoidance through crypsis. There was a good match between frogs and some of the leaves from the leaf litter surrounding the breeding ponds. Hypotheses for the development of sexual differences in wood frog color include sexual differences in availability of pigment and pigment precursors, morphological color change, and evolutionary response to different selection pressures.

Lack of an association between heterozygosity and growth rate in the wood frog, Rana sylvatica

1995 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 569-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael F. Wright ◽  
Sheldon I. Guttman
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Rana Sylvatica ◽  
Developmental Period ◽  
Wood Frog ◽  
Single Locus ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Enzyme Loci ◽  
Effect On Growth

The effect of both multilocus and single-locus heterozygosity on growth rate was examined in a cohort of larvae of the wood frog, Rana sylvatica, collected from a pond during the later stages of premetamorphic development. Seven electrophoretically detected enzyme loci were used to determine individual heterozygosity, whereas the growth rate was measured as wet mass. In all cases, no significant correlation was found between multilocus heterozygosity and mass among larvae collected at intervals during the developmental period. In addition, multiple regression analyses indicated that no single locus had a demonstrable effect on growth rate. The results of this study, therefore, provide no evidence for a link between enzyme heterozygosity and growth rate during the later stages of premetamorphic development in wood frog larvae.

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